Day 50 The Hittite Capital Hattusa
For more than 100 years, researchers from the German Archaeological Institute have conducted excavations in the ruined city of Hattusa on the Anatolian plateau. During the archaeological work, unique monuments […]
For more than 100 years, researchers from the German Archaeological Institute have conducted excavations in the ruined city of Hattusa on the Anatolian plateau. During the archaeological work, unique monuments […]
About 30 kilometers south of Cairo, in the middle of the yellow desert sand, is the pyramid cemetery of Dahshur. For nearly 1000 years it served as the final resting […]
On 7 June 2016 the DAI’s Romano-Germanic Commission (RGK) opened a research unit at the Hungarian Acadamy of Sciences in Budapest. Since it was founded the Romano-Germanic Commission has been […]
During rescue excavations in 2004 and 2005 in the Bolaghi Valley near Pasargadae in Iran, a team from the Eurasia department of the DAI examined the remains of a settlement […]
In the early Middle Ages, the Baltic region was an area of contact between the kingdoms of Scandinavia, the Frankish Empire, and the Baltic and Slavic areas. An international economic […]
The Machalilla culture (1,400–800 BC) remains largely unresearched. It spread along the coast of Ecuador and had relations extending to the highlands and the north Peruvian coast. It was named […]
On Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s four main islands, 11.000 years ago humans still lived as nomads without permanent settlements. It was only several thousand years later that they began […]
People from all over the known world flocked to the Zeus-dedicated sanctuary at Olympia every four years to watch the most prestigious sporting contests in antiquity, the Olympic Games, and […]
Some 2,700 years ago a Sabaean stonemason, on the orders of the king, carved Sabaean characters into an altar that stood in the temple of the supreme god Almaqah. What […]