Day 16 A hoard of 1,648 coins in Tunisia
In antiquity the city of Simitthus/Chimtou, 180 kilometres west of Tunis, was famed above all for its yellow marble, one of the most popular varieties of marble in the Roman […]
Day 15 20 years of the Mongolian-German Karakorum Expedition
Since 1999 the DAI and the University of Bonn have been carrying out research at Karakorum, the ancient Mongol capital, in the framework of the Mongolian-German Karakorum Expedition. The city […]
Day 14 Patara – Lycia’s gateway to the Roman world
Patara was one of the chief cities of Lycia, an ancient region on the south-west coast of what is now Turkey, and it was the administrative base of the Roman […]
Day 13 Prehistoric silver mining on Ibiza
The mining district of s’Argentera on Ibiza is one of the largest in the Balearic Islands, ranking alongside the lead and silver ore deposits of Bunyola on Mallorca and the […]
Day 12 The Rome Department
The Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica was founded 190 years ago on the Capitol in Rome, in Palazzo Caffarelli, seat of the Prussian ambassador to the Holy See. Six years later […]
Day 11 Half a century of research on Elephantine
Fifty years ago on 9 January, excavations began on the Nile island of Elephantine in southern Egypt. For more than four millennia Elephantine was the most important frontier and trading […]
Day 10 60 years of excavations at Takht-e Soleyman
60 years ago the DAI’s excavations began at Takht-e Soleyman in the province of West Azerbaijan in Iran. The complex of buildings around a lake on a calcareous sinter plateau […]
Day 9 A Roman imperial palace in Serbia
On 30 April 311, the Edict of Toleration was issued by the Roman emperor Galerius in Nicomedia, ending Rome’s persecution of Christians. A porphyry portrait of the emperor was discovered […]
Day 8 The oldest trousers in the world
We all have at least one pair of trousers in the wardrobe these days. But where does it come from? The oldest pair of trousers known so far was found […]