Only about 100 years ago Istanbul was still almost entirely a wooden city. Dramatic geopolitical and societal change, new paradigms in town planning and architecture, and the advent of modernity […]

The great cave of Kashmir Smast in the mountains at the edge of the Himalayas overlooking the plains of Peshawar was venerated as a shrine for centuries and was visited […]

The sanctuary of Apollo in Didyma near the west coast of Turkey is one of the biggest sacred buildings of the ancient world. The DAI has carried out research there […]

For the Phoenician seafarers and merchants, Mogador was a top port of call. At this seemingly far-flung spot a brisk trade was done in exceptionally rare goods in antiquity. Here […]

Chariot racing was the most popular sport in the Roman world. The Circus Maximus in Rome at times hosted races on more than 50 days of the year, before an […]

On board the Royal Yacht “Hohenzollern”, on 20th July 1901, the emperor Wilhelm II decreed that a Romano-Germanic Commission be founded. It took up its work in Frankfurt/Main on 1st […]

3,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Khmer produced salt for a large hinterland. Excavations conducted by the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures at Go O Chua (“pagoda hill”) […]

The fertile alluvial plains on the Ionian coast of southern Italy were magnets during the Greek westward colonization, especially for emigrants from the barren Peloponnese. Along with the Achaean city […]

Roman trading ships on the “Silk Road of the Sea” sailed from south Arabia or the Red Sea to southern India and Sri Lanka in around 40 days in summer, […]