Day 68 A Roman city gate with an eventful history
The Porta Nigra in Trier is the best preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps. This is thanks to an eremite monk called Simeon, after whose death the building […]
Day 67 Corpus of documents of Roman rule
Central media of Roman rule were edicts and letters in which a Roman emperor or governor officially proclaimed his will. These documentary texts are of great importance for understanding Roman […]
Day 66 Domus Aurea – the golden house
The Roman historian Tacitus records in his Annals (Tac. ann. 15, 38–41) that Emperor Nero had a complex of villas erected inside the city of Rome covering approx. 80 ha […]
Day 65 A Chalcolithic settlement in Wallachia
The settlement hill Magura Gorgana near the modern village of Pietrele in Wallachia, southern Romania, was an impressive sight in the 5th millennium BC. The tell, about nine metres high, […]
Day 64 Roman “building boom” at Munigua
The DAI Madrid has been active at the Roman settlement of Munigua in what is today Andalusia since 1956. A large part of the urban area has been exposed: forum, […]
Day 63 Kurgans in the land of seven rivers
The “land of seven rivers” – Zhetsyu – in southern Kazakhstan is a highly significant region in archaeological terms and an important centre of early nomadic culture given the large […]
Day 62 Ancient mining in Afghanistan
In addition to tin and gold, Afghanistan possesses large deposits of copper. A striking illustration of this is the site of Mes Aynak, where a Kushan to Sassanid period (c. […]
Day 61 Summer solstice in Ireland
Following ancient tradition, people from all over the world are gathering at the Hill of Tara, Ireland, today to mark the summer solstice. The Roman–Germanic Commission of the DAI can […]
Day 60 The National Museum in Cherchell
Since 2009 the DAI Rome has been coordinating the reinstallation of the National Archaeological Museum in Cherchell, Algeria, in collaboration with the Ministère de la Culture in Algiers and with […]