Some 2,700 years ago a Sabaean stonemason, on the orders of the king, carved Sabaean characters into an altar that stood in the temple of the supreme god Almaqah. What […]

Gonur Depe (“grey hill”) is a Bronze Age city in Turkmenistan. It’s the most widely investigated archaeological site of the Oxus Civilization, with extensively excavated settlement districts and grave fields. […]

Inside the Forbidden City, the former residence of the Chinese emperors, a highly unusual building can be seen: the so-called Crystal Palace (Lingzhao Xuan). Erected in 1909, the pavilion was […]

The Deir Anba Hadra – formerly called the St. Simeon Monastery – is a medieval monastery on the west bank of the Nile at Aswan. It was inhabited by Coptic […]

According to historian Cassius Dio, very special attractions were offered at the opening of the Colosseum, the largest arena of the ancient world, under Emperor Titus in 80 AD, including […]

The pyramid complex of Meroe, located around 200 kilometers northeast of Khartoum in Sudan, consists of 900 large and small pyramids and tombs. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the […]

The underground world of the catacombs has long fascinated visitors and researchers. Their dark passageways with thousands of tombs continue to offer a particularly authentic impression of antiquity to this […]

In the Amazon region, which has been badly neglected in archaeological research, advanced cultures about which very little is known existed in pre-Hispanic times. The DAI’s Commission for Archaeology of […]

The Digital Atlas of Innovations is a project of the Eurasia Department in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. The atlas is the first complete […]