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Lecture Announcement: KİMYAHANE. DIE GESCHICHTE DES ERSTEN KONSERVIERUNGSLABORS DER TÜRKEI UND SEINE ZUSAMMENARBEIT MIT DEM BERLINER CHEMIELABOR

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Our evening lecture series continues in 2025! The first lecture in the new year will be given by Dr. Vildan Yarlıgaş (Istanbul) on the topic ‘Kimyahane. Die Geschichte des ersten Konservierungslabors der Türkei und seine Zusammenarbeit mit dem Berliner Chemielabor’. The restoration and conservation of artefacts based on scientific and modern methods began in the […]

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Conference Announcement: The Funerary Archaeology of Byzantine Constantinople. New Approaches, New Discoveries

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Mortuary practices are cultural phenomena common to humanity, and therefore burials and the “archaeology of death” have long been recognized as essential sources for all archaeologies. This is also true of Byzantine archaeology, and in recent decades graves and tombs, cemeteries and burial churches have increasingly been the focus of historical, art historical, and scientific […]

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47th International Mediterranean Survey (IMS) Workshop

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The German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul Department and the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University invite you to the 47th International Mediterranean Survey (IMS) workshop, which will be held on the 6th and 7th December 2024 in Istanbul. The IMS workshops are biannual informal meetings, at which survey-related research of recent fieldwork and methodological studies can be presented, explored and tested. […]

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Lecture Announcement: INNOVATION IN ROMAN PISIDIA. FROM CUISINE TO ECONOMIC GROWTH

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Our evening lecture series continues. This time on an unusual day of the week for our evening lectures. Next MONDAY, Prof. Dr. Jeroen Poblome (Leuven) will talk about ‘Innovation in Roman Pisidia. From Cuisine to Economic Growth’. This paper starts from a presentation on innovations in cooking technology and culinary practices in the Pisidian city […]

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Conference Announcement: Amphoras and the Archaeology of Ancient Economies (8th to the 1st Centuries BC): Mobilizing Knowledge in a New Generation

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Recent decades have seen a great expansion of attention to the production, distribution, and consumption of transport amphoras throughout the Mediterranean. This expansion is due in part to the encouragement of the PATABS conferences, the welcoming setting of the IARPotHP conferences, where an increasing number of papers are concerned with amphoras, and the amphora-focused conferences […]

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EVENING LECTURE: IRON AGE BURIAL CUSTOMS IN CENTRAL ANATOLIA: THE VIEW FROM BOGAZKÖY

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On 31.10.2024 Prof. Dr. Hermann Genz will start the Lecture Programme 2024/ 2025 of the Istanbul Department with a lecture on ‘Iron Age Burial Customs in Central Anatolia: the View from Boğazköy’. The discussion of Iron Age burial customs in Central Anatolia has largely been dominated by the spectacular discoveries from the monumental tumuli from […]