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 […]
Day 49 The Pyramid Cemetery of Dahshur
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 […]
Day 48 The Budapest Research Unit
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 […]
Day 47 Pottery Kilns in the Bolaghi Valley
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 […]
Day 46 Early Medieval Maritime Trade Sites in the Baltic Region
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 […]
Johny Isla: “Many thanks for fruitful cooperation in Peru”
Congratulations for 190 years of research! At this point we would like to emphasize that during the work carried out in Palpa, cooperation relations were intensified between the Commission for […]
Day 45 Unearthing a 3,500-Year-Old Culture on the Coast of Ecuador
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 […]
Day 44 Jomon Culture on Hokkaido
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 […]
Day 43 The Leonidaion in Olympia
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 […]