News & Insights from the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute
Türkiye’nin başkenti Ankara’nın yaklaşık 200 km doğusunda, Boğazkale İlçesin (eski adıyla Boğazköy) yakınlarında, Hitit İmparatorluğu’nun başkenti Hattuşa (UNESCO Dünya Mirası Alanı ve UNESCO Dünya Belleği) yer almaktadır. MÖ 2. Binyılda Hitit İmparatorluğu Batı Asya’nın büyük bir bölümüne hâkim olmuş ve Mısır, Babil ile Asur’un en güçlü rakiplerden biri olmuştur. 116 yıldan beri süregelen Hattuşa arkeolojik […]
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 were just finished. When I was 14 years old, during the summer vacation I found myself in Boğazköy. I helped install the sinks, mirrors, and […]
About 200 km east of the Turkish capital Ankara, near the small town of Boğazkale (formerly Boğazköy), lie the ruins of the Bronze Age city of Hattusha, the capital city of the Hittite Empire (UNESCO World Heritage Site and UNESCO Memory of the World). In the 2nd millennium BC, this empire dominated large parts of […]
Etwa 200 km östlich der türkischen Hauptstadt Ankara liegt unmittelbar bei der Kleinstadt Boğazkale (früher Boğazköy) die bronzezeitliche Stadtruine von Hattuscha, Hauptstadt des hethitischen Großreichs (UNESCO Weltkulturerbe und UNESCO Memory of the World). Dieses beherrschte im 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. weite Teile Westasiens und bildete einen mächtigen Gegenspieler Ägyptens, Babyloniens und Assyriens. Seit 116 Jahren […]
The German Archaeological Institute is happy to announce its new online exhibition “An Archive within an Archive”, which was prepared for the International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Venice and Padua in August 2022. The exhibition’s subject forms a 74 pages long notebook that appeared while digitizing the Müller-Wiener archive. When we first encountered this […]
On 16 November 1972, the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, in short the World Heritage Convention, was decided by the UNESCO General Conference in Paris. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of this event, this year’s DAInsight series under the title “50 Jahre Welterbekonvention” presents world heritage sites […]
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 of ancient Pergamon, today’s Bergama. After a long break during World War II and the following years, German archaeologists conducted large scale excavations in order […]
Second NOS-HS Workshop on “Earthen architecture design and construction sustainability practice” hold in Lund, Sweden, 20th and 21st June 2022. In the framework of the NENA Initiative and the Research cooperation on earthen architecture “Earthen Architecture in Nordic research: Historic knowledge, Social Impact and Sustainability” (https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/projects/earthen-architecture-in-nordic-research-historic-knowledge-social) funded by the Nordic Research Council the second NOS-HS […]
The Miletus Excavation (www.miletgrabung.uni-hamburg.de) has a new website that provides information about the ruins of Miletus, its landscape, and its history. Miletus was one of the most important cities of classical antiquity. Photo: Miletus Excavation, University Hamburg The first excavations took place more than 130 years ago. Since 2018, they have been carried out by […]
Dear Guests, Our library will be closed from 01 July to 01 September 2022.We wish you beautiful summer days! Photo: M. Ubben
