Upcoming Lectures on Pandemics and Healing at Roman Pergamon
Thursday, 26 November 2020, 18:00 (16:00 CET) | DAI Istanbul The worldwide spread of the corona virus is currently having a major impact on the everyday life of many people. […]
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Between cotton, olives and the recent remains of human society – Geoarchaeological fieldwork in Pergamon in 2020
Fabian Becker, Mehmet Doğan and Xun Yang During the field campaign in 2019 an archaeological survey and a first geographical field inspection – including the description and sampling of some […]
Return to Çandarlı: the Pitane Survey in 2020
Philip Bes & Anneke Keweloh-Kaletta In September 2019 our small team carried out a first intensive survey in the centre of the Çandarlı Peninsula (see our 2019 blog post). Çandarlı […]
Reconstructing the Ancient Route Network in Pergamon’s Surroundings
The surrounding landscape of ancient Pergamon is characterized by several mountain ranges, the Bakırçay Valley and River and the Aegean coastline. The accessibility of this region was vital for the […]
The first year of the new research project TransPergMikro in Pergamon
In spring of 2019, the large international research project TransPergMikro, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), was launched in Bergama/Pergamon. Just a few months later, we started a ten-week […]
Pitane Survey 2019
A third component of the wider TransPergMikro Project is an intensive field survey on the Çandarlı peninsula. Within the study of Roman pottery, Çandarlı – ancient Pitane – is known […]
Lernen – Forschen – Kultur erhalten
Eine Bildergalerie Das Leben und Arbeiten auf einer archäologischen Forschungsplattform wie der Pergamongrabung ist von vielfältigen Aufgaben bestimmt, die durch die beteiligten Disziplinen mit unterschiedlichen Methoden angegangen werden. Der Austausch […]
Asklepieion and Amphitheater: Where did the Stones come from?
The surface investigations in the wider surroundings of the Pergamene Asklepieion progressed rapidly in the last three weeks: 190 hectares of the foothills of the Kozak Mountains were explored with […]
New survey in the surroundings of Pergamon
Already in 1912 Carl Schuchhardt remarked that the development of the city of Pergamon could not be understood in isolation from the settlement history of the surrounding landscape. Until then, […]
Urban Economic Spaces in Pergamon
The ancient city Pergamon has been explored for more than 140 years. Because of its long history of research and extensive excavation the urban structure can be revealed easy. This […]
New field work in the Asklepieion area
How did the surrounding area of the Pergamene Asklepieion change from Hellenism to the Roman Imperial Period? What kind of buildings and uses existed outside the famous sanctuary? These questions […]
The Amphitheater of Pergamon
The amphitheater of Pergamon is a subproject of TransPergMikro. The aim of this project is the documentation and construction analysis of the amphitheater, a key monument for the transformation of […]
The Amphitheater of Pergamon
The amphitheater of Pergamon is a subproject of TransPergMikro. The aim of this project is the documentation and construction analysis of the amphitheater, a key monument for the transformation of […]
Connecting archaeological survey projects
Workshop from 22-23 March 2019 at the DAI Istanbul A group of international scholars from various survey projects met at the Istanbul Department of the DAI from 22 to 23 […]
Aus dem Schatten des Pergamonaltars: Mensch und Umwelt in der Antike
Mitten in Berlin können die Besucher im Ende 2018 eröffneten Interim des Pergamonmuseums einer Visite des römischen Kaisers Hadrian auf dem Stadtberg der antiken Metropole im Jahr 129 beiwohnen. Höhepunkt […]
