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 […]

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 […]

In 2018, the caliph’s palace of Madinat al-Zahra near Cordoba became a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. Founded in 936 AD, the residence of Caliph Abd al-Rahman III is the […]

Along with Dodona and Delphi in Greece, the oracle temple of Amun at the oasis of Siwa was the best known oracle in antiquity and is still famous today for […]

At the other end of the Pacific lies another exotic archaeological site. A research project on the prehistory of the Solomon Islands was launched in spring 2011. At the beginning […]

Today the DAI’s projects reach far beyond Europe and classical antiquity – as far afield as the Pacific Ocean. Easter Island lies totally isolated in the South Pacific, a good […]

Pergamon was one of the most prominent urban centres in the classical world – seat of the Hellenistic royal dynasty of the Attalids and sprawling Roman city. Politically significant in […]

The Athens department, inaugurated in 1874, was the first in a series of departments & commissions that were founded and they still shape the DAI’s global operations today. And with […]

The year it was founded, 1829, the DAI launched the following academic publications: Annali dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, Bullettino degli Annali dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, and Monumenti inediti. The series […]