Excavations in the Kerameikos of Athens were assigned to the DAI Athens by a state treaty on 16 July 1913. Systematic excavations carried out since then have exposed an area […]

The DAI’s Roman–Germanic Commission has been excavating near Vráble in south-western Slovakia since 2009. Many inhabitants of the Bronze Age settlement there were the victims of violence. This is evident […]

The early Bronze Age settlement near the town of Vráble in Slovakia is remarkable for its size – approx. 12 ha – and for a mighty earthwork fortification consisting of […]

Bapska, in eastern Croatia, is the site of a Neolithic settlement. It is a tell, or settlement hill, such as is characteristic of south-eastern Europe and the Near East. The […]

In 1829, the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica, forerunner of today’s German Archaeological Institute, was founded on the Capitol in Palazzo Caffarelli, the  residence of the Prussian ambassador to the Holy […]

The “Andes Transect” is a region under scientific investigation on the west side of the Andes in southern Peru. There a team from the DAI’s Commission for Archaeology of Non-European […]

The great city of the legendary King Gilgamesh has been a subject of research by German archaeologists for over 100 years now. In the fluvial landscape of southern Mesopotamia, small […]

Abandoned since the 9th century, the pilgrimage site of Abu Mena in the western Nile delta was the biggest early Christian pilgrimage centre in the ancient world. It’s the location […]

Tarsos in Cilicia – best known today as the birth place of the Apostle Paul – was one of the most important administrative, political and cultural centres of ancient Asia […]