D-DAI-IST-2023-00001, B. Güler My first job at the Istanbul department of the DAI was related to photography. In 2016, I worked for the Pergamon and Boğazköy excavation archives. Whenever my […]

D-DAI-IST-10123 Sebah & Joaillier (Year unknown) The photo of the month from our photo library has the motto ›Constantinople – Byzantium – Istanbul through the ages‹. The Monastery ›τοῦ Λιβός‹, […]

D-DAI-IST-KB30143 / Peter Schneider 1978 The photo of the Month series from our archive continues with the contributions of DAI employees!On my first working day at the DAI, I had […]

Boğazköy Excavation Archive, D-DAI-IST-BO-Umgebung-1978-11-00039 My father was a taxi driver. He was bringing mosaic masters from Sungurlu to the Boğazköy excavations. On 15.06.1975 the construction works of the excavation house […]

DAI-IST-PE57-57, Unknown Photograph Our picture of the month from 1957 shows a scenic view over the hill top of Musalla Mezarlik, a hill in the vicinity of the lower city […]

DAI-IST-KB4565, Manfred Korfmann (1973) This massive wall in the monthly photo from our archive is from Alacahöyük. The sign painted on the wall confuses us. It reads “Hittite the 2nd […]

D-DAI-IST-R26184 , W. Schiele (1989) In the photo of the month, we see the young librarian Ali Akkaya working at the typewriter in the old building of our institute in […]

D-DAI-IST-R12962a, Photographer and Date Unknown In our photo of the month we are witnesses to the discovery at Zincirli Höyük of impressive stone reliefs from the Late Hittite period. Those […]

DAI-IST, Guillaume Berggren (?), around 1880, use of the sarcophagus as a fountain The Roman sarcophagus in our monthly photo unfortunately no longer exists. According to the testimony of Goltz […]

D-DAI-IST-4137, Photographer and date are unknown The monthly photo that we selected from our archive shows preparations being made for some field photography. The photographer, who may have accidentally released […]

D-DAI-IST-R31602, Photographer and date are unknown At the centre of the “photo of the month” we see Osman Hamdi who is looking at us with a painter’s palette in his […]

D-DAI-IST-R26109, Sebah & Joaillier (around 1900) In the photo of the month from our archive, the hottest room of the Caǧaloǧlu Bath is visible. Our view focuses on the slim […]

D-DAI-IST-KB25688, Author unknown (1938) Because the excavation season is coming to an end, the photo of the month of October shows a scene from the excavation house of Priene. There […]

DAI-IST-9379, Sébah&Joaillier, at the end of the 19th century Our Photo of the Month from our archives for September comes from shows the Red Hall Basilica in Pergamon, visible in […]