Day 25 Traditions of the Angami in Nagaland
Thousands of stone stelae can be found in and around the villages of Nagaland. The upright slabs are erected by wealthy villagers as the culmination of feasts which are attended […]
Day 24 Geoglyphs in the desert
In the coastal desert of Nasca and Palpa in Peru, gigantic figures are scored into the ground. The geoglyphs, as they are known, were the subject of archaeological investigation and […]
Day 23 The Athens Department
Founded in 1874, the Athens Department of the DAI covers many areas in the investigation of the culture of ancient Greece. The sanctuaries of Olympia, Samos and Kalapodi, the Mycenian […]
Day 22 The settlement history of the southern Caucasus
In 2009, excavations began at Kamiltepe in Azerbaijan. The collaborative project between the Tehran Branch of the DAI and the National Academy of Sciences in Baku was initiated to shed […]
Day 21 The gold of the Scythians
Arzhan, in the Uyuk river valley on the Siberian steppes, is the site of an enormous kurgan necropolis from the 1st millennium BC. The Arzhan 2 kurgan was excavated by […]
Day 20 An Ottoman bazaar in Erbil
For centuries Erbil, in the region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, has been an important commercial centre for the region with a key role in long-distance trade between Baghdad and […]
Day 19 Landscape archaeology on the Cimmerian Bosporus
The Taman Peninsula is situated on the north-east coast of the Black Sea on the Asian side of the Russian Federation. Opposite, on the European side, lies the Kerch Peninsula, […]
Day 18 The imperial palaces on the Palatine
The Palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, with the Roman Forum lying in the valley directly to the north, the Capitol to the west and the Circus Maximus […]
Day 17 Pre-Hispanic settlement of the Amazon Basin in Bolivia
Some time between 650 and 700 AD, a man aged 30 to 40 died in Lorma Salvatierra in the north of the Amazon Basin in Bolivia. He was buried in […]