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Our evening lecture series continues next week! On THURSDAY, 28.11.2024, Prof. Dr. Albrecht Berger (Munich), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alessandra Ricci (Istanbul), Prof. Dr. Natalia Poulou (Thessaloniki) will speak on the topic ‘NOVA ROMA, 324 CE. NEW CAPITAL FOR A NEW ERA’. Graphic: B. Akan With the foundation of Nova Roma aka Constantinople as the new […]
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 […]
As part of the conference “Amphoras and the Archaeology of Ancient Economies (8th to the 1st Centuries BC): Mobilizing Knowledge in a New Generation”, we are pleased to announce the evening lecture by Prof. Dr. Gonca Cankardeş Şenol (İzmir) on “Recent Amphora Studies in Türkiye / Anatolia”. Graphic: B. Akan In Türkiye, amphora studies started […]
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 […]
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 […]
The new lecture programme 2024/ 2025 is online! The lectures will take place on Thursdays at 18:00 (Istanbul time) in the announced language. The events will be hybrid, both physical and online on ZOOM. Information and registration links for each event will be shared on our social media. For physical participation, please register in advance […]
The 73rd volume of the Istanbuler Mitteilungen has been published! From the Neolithic architecture of eastern Anatolia to the Roman imperial period on the west coast of Anatolia and the Byzantine architectural sculpture in Phrygia, there are many exciting articles. ©DAI-IST | Authors: Coverphoto: © Sagalassos Archaeological Research ProjectDesign: LMK Büro für Kommunikationsdesign To access […]
Artificial Intelligence is going to change, or has already changed, many areas of archaeological research. Keywords related to archaeology and AI are data management, big data, automatic classification of artefact analyses, or robotics in the field. Methods and tasks that are already in daily use in archaeological projects. But with all the potential, this technology […]
“That’s beautiful!” Emma is holding an old photo and pointing to a magnificent Ottoman wooden building. The picture is from the photo archive at the German Archaeological Institute’s Istanbul Department, where we, Emma and Elisa, are working as kulturweit-Volunteers. Emma Bobbert and Elisa Karam kulturweit-Voluteers 2023 / 2024. Author: B. Güler Emma and I are […]
„Ist das schön!“ – Emma hält gerade ein altes Foto in der Hand und deutet auf ein prachtvolles osmanisches Holzgebäude. Das Bild stammt aus dem Fotoarchiv des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts der Abteilung Istanbul, in dem wir, Emma und Elisa, als kulturweit-Freiwillige arbeiten. Emma Bobbert und Elisa Karam kulturweit-Freiwillige 2023 / 2024. Autor: B. Güler Mit […]
