In the late 19th century Roman finds were made, and subsequently a series of forts identified, along the river Lippe in Westphalia. The Roman finds from Haltern am See near […]

The Athens Department building has been a meeting place for international scholars and researchers visiting Athens ever since the DAI moved into the premises – the design of which was […]

For thousands of years the Oasis of Tayma was one of the most significant oases in north-western Arabia. It’s located on the Arabian Peninsula approx. 360 km north of­­­ Medina […]

The DAI Rome, founded in 1829 as the Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1879. Its library received a precious gift on the occasion: Baron Ferdinand von […]

The church of Archangel Michael in Germia was a famous pilgrimage site and is today the largest and best preserved church ruin from early Byzantine times on the central Anatolian […]

The fortified settlement of Zambujal near Torres Vedras, approx. 50 km north-west of Lisbon (Portugal), dates from the 3rd/2nd millennium BC. In the core area, walls up to 4 metres […]

“Sculpture of stupefying assurance, grand and splendid,” the German architectural archaeologist Robert Koldewey once wrote to his colleague Otto Puchstein. He was referring to the architectural ornament of the sanctuary […]

The Albanum near Castel Gandolfo, the residence of Domitian (81 – 96 AD), was a new kind of villa: contrary to established tradition the Emperor also carried out official business […]

Since 2009, the Roman Germanic Commission, in cooperation with local partners and the University of Kiel, has been conducting research on so-called ‘megasites’ of the Cucuţeni–Trypillia-Culture in Moldova and the […]