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 […]

190 years ago today an international group of friends made up of antiquaries and archaeologists founded the Instituto di Correspondenza Archeologica on the Capitol in Rome. As the name suggests, […]