News & Insights from the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute
Every find that archaeologists make by digging in the ground is actually a tiny piece of a big story. It is also possible to dig through an archive just like an archaeologist and find a lot of stories. These stories might be about a photographer who worked in the archive, a visitor who happened to […]
Dear Readers, Our library will be closed between 26.06.-31.08.2023. We wish you a nice time during the summer. Thank you for your understanding.
The book we would like to introduce this month is fresh from the press “Kirkbride at Çatalhöyük: The Çatalhöyük slides of Diana Kirkbride-Helbaek from 1963 (ed. by Moritz Kinzel)”. It contains many photographs of Çatalhöyük reliefs and wall paintings, some of which we have only known from drawings. It is well known that some of […]
Hierapolis of Phrygia is located in Western Anatolia in the Lycus Valley (modern Pamukkale). The city was founded by the Seleucids in the late 3rd cent. BC and had an intense urban development throughout its history. The Ionic order was an essential, long-lasting architectural language, used from the Hellenistic to the Imperial age in public […]
We are pleased to announce the 2023 spring tours! Prof. Dr. Felix Pirson will start with the “Highlights of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum” on Sunday, 04.06.2023 at 12:00. The meeting point is at the entrance to the Archaeological Museum. The tour will be held in German. Please bring the Müze Kart with you.
It is often thought, that air pollution is a product of modern “civilization”. The contrary is true. In particular indoor air pollution by hearth fires are going back into the first habitations in Paleolithic caves. The problem was rising through prehistory, as can be indirectly seen by the rising CO2 content of the atmosphere, preserved […]
I am a PhD student working at the German Mining Museum in Bochum. I completed my studies at the Ruhr University Bochum and graduated with a Master’s degree in Pre- and Protohistory and Archaeology of Economics and Raw Materials. During my studies, I had the opportunity to study at Hacettepe University in Ankara as part […]
I started my undergraduate education in 2010 at the Department of Geography at Isparta Süleyman Demirel University. In my master’s thesis, which I completed in the same department between 2014 and 2017, I conducted research at Mucur Obruk Lake in Central Anatolia (Kırşehir-Mucur). The aim of my thesis was to explain the paleo-vegetation changes of […]
I am a geographer from Berlin. From 2014 to 2020 I studied at the Institute of Geographical Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin. I completed the bachelor’s program in Geographical Sciences in 2018 and the consecutive master’s program in Geographical Environmental Research in 2020. During my studies, I specialized in physical geography, emphasizing geomorphological analysis and […]
Francesco G. Barsacchi is a Hittitologist, currently assistant professor at the University of Turin (within the project: ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the European Research Infrastructure RESILIENCE). His research interests focus on Hittite language and culture, with a special attention dedicated to the religious sphere. From this point of view, he has investigated several aspects […]
