Day 7 A caliph’s palace in Spain
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 […]
Day 6 The oracle in the desert
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 […]
Day 5 A stone tool workshop on the Solomon Islands
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 […]
Day 4 Water management on Easter Island
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 […]
Day 3 Pergamon – a major city in Asia Minor in classical times
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 […]
Day 2 145 years of excavations at Olympia, Greece
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 […]
Day 1 First publications
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 […]
It’s our birthday!
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, […]