D-DAI-IST-R31602, Photographer and date are unknown At the centre of the “photo of the month” we see Osman Hamdi who is looking at us with a painter’s palette in his hand. Osman Hamdi was one of the first generation archaeologists of the Ottoman Empire who was appointed director of the Ottoman Imperial Museum (Müze-i Hümayun) […]

D-DAI-IST-R26109, Sebah & Joaillier (around 1900) In the photo of the month from our archive, the hottest room of the Caǧaloǧlu Bath is visible. Our view focuses on the slim columns supporting the large dome of the bath, the navel stone in the centre, and the Ottoman Baroque-style fountains at the back. The sunlight gliding […]

D-DAI-IST-KB25688, Author unknown (1938) Because the excavation season is coming to an end, the photo of the month of October shows a scene from the excavation house of Priene. There are many excavation houses in Anatolia that impress with their beauty. They all are the living space of archaeology teams. Probably the big table in […]

DAI-IST-9379, Sébah&Joaillier, at the end of the 19th century Our Photo of the Month from our archives for September comes from shows the Red Hall Basilica in Pergamon, visible in the background. The Red Hall is one of the largest and most impressive preserved Roman structures in Anatolia and a rare example of Egyptian architectural […]

D-DAI-IST-1015, E. Mamboury, T. Wiegand (Year Unknow) The Photo of the Month: Today, if you move along the coast of the Marmara Sea by leaving the whistles of the ferries and the cries of seagulls behind, you will pass through a landscape that has astonished all travelers who visited the City for centuries; maybe you’re […]

D-DAI-IST-R34535, H. Hauptmann Our photo of the month for June from our archives shows one of the many well-known T-shaped pillars from Göbekli Tepe, an 11.000 year-old site located in Şanlıurfa in south-eastern Turkey. This particular limestone monolith is one of the central pillars from Building D, one of several well preserved monumental structures at […]

D-DAI-IST-9519, Sébah&Joaillier (around 1900) With our Series of the Monthly Photo, we would like to draw your attention to a book entitled Istanbuler Alltag im 19. Jahrhundert created by Renate Schiele and Wolfgang Müller-Wiener. This publications includes some 100 photographs, selected from our own archives and with added texts, showing scenes of daily life in […]

D-DAI-IST-NPN-007-Flora-00004, P. Neve A spring photograph from our archive for the monthly series! Archaeologists who excavated a century or so ago would surely be surprised if they could see today’s excavation techniques and, in particular, how the philosophy behind archaeology has changed. Meanwhile, there are numerous archaeological sciences, one of which is archaeobotany (the study […]

D-DAI-IST-KB29072, F. V. Holbach (1910) Especially in historical archeological photographs, male workers or children often stand next to the archaeological finds like an inanimate object, serving as a scale. In this photo, which we selected for the Photo of the Month Series, a woman poses with all her elegance next to an architectural piece, as […]