The mining district of s’Argentera on Ibiza is one of the largest in the Balearic Islands, ranking alongside the lead and silver ore deposits of Bunyola on Mallorca and the […]

The Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica was founded 190 years ago on the Capitol in Rome, in Palazzo Caffarelli, seat of the Prussian ambassador to the Holy See. Six years later […]

Fifty years ago on 9 January, excavations began on the Nile island of Elephantine in southern Egypt. For more than four millennia Elephantine was the most important frontier and trading […]

60 years ago the DAI’s excavations began at Takht-e Soleyman in the province of West Azerbaijan in Iran. The complex of buildings around a lake on a calcareous sinter plateau […]

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 […]