Bapska, in eastern Croatia, is the site of a Neolithic settlement. It is a tell, or settlement hill, such as is characteristic of south-eastern Europe and the Near East. The […]

In 1829, the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica, forerunner of today’s German Archaeological Institute, was founded on the Capitol in Palazzo Caffarelli, the  residence of the Prussian ambassador to the Holy […]

The “Andes Transect” is a region under scientific investigation on the west side of the Andes in southern Peru. There a team from the DAI’s Commission for Archaeology of Non-European […]

The great city of the legendary King Gilgamesh has been a subject of research by German archaeologists for over 100 years now. In the fluvial landscape of southern Mesopotamia, small […]

Abandoned since the 9th century, the pilgrimage site of Abu Mena in the western Nile delta was the biggest early Christian pilgrimage centre in the ancient world. It’s the location […]

Tarsos in Cilicia – best known today as the birth place of the Apostle Paul – was one of the most important administrative, political and cultural centres of ancient Asia […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]