Day 77 Monumental Persian structures at Tappeh Rivi
Since 2016 the DAI’s Tehran Branch has been at work at Tappeh Rivi in north-eastern Iran. The settlement covers 120 ha and was occupied from the Iron Age to the […]
Day 76 Rediscovery of ancient cultures in Baluchistan
The 4–5 hectare archaeological site of Sohr Damb lies in the highlands of Baluchistan (Pakistan), near the borders with Iran and Afghanistan. In 1925, initial excavations in the 13 m […]
Day 75 Geomagnetic survey work in Falbygden
The plateau of Falbygden in Västergötland, south-western Sweden, is the location of some 250 passage graves – a special form of Neolithic monolithic tomb. Such a concentration of passage graves […]
Day 74 Nubian villages on Biggeh
A passion for technology, curiosity about the outside world, pining for absent loved ones, anticipation of their return, simple decoration, or drawing for the fun of it – we can […]
Day 73 Tiryns – a major centre of Bronze Age Europe
In the mid 19th century, Heinrich Schliemann set off in search of the locales of Homer’s epics. At Tiryns he found one of the most important early centres of Bronze […]
Day 72 Firuzabad – The Circular City
The city of Firuzabad, the ancient Sasanian town of Gūr, is located in the Iranian province of Fars south of Shiraz. The archaeologist Dietrich Huff, who has worked at the […]
Day 71 ArcHerNet – Archaeological Heritage Network
Workshops for children, scholarships for Syrian refugee students in Egypt or stonemasonry trainings in Jordan – the projects of ArcHerNet are diverse. Since 2016, eighteen German institutions work together to […]
Day 70 The archive of Friedrich W. Hinkel
The archive of Friedrich W. Hinkel represents one of the largest collections of research materials concerning the archaeology of the Ancient Sudan. Thousands of photographs, slides, maps and drawings are […]
Day 69 Pre-Hispanic settlement on the Caribbean coast of Honduras
The archaeological site of Guadalupe is situated in a little investigated region on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. The settlement dates from the Cocal Period (1000–1500 AD). A platform excavated […]