KISHIB. Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings

Elisa Roßberger, Prof. Dr. Adelheid Otto (LMU München)

Jan 01, 2025

Long-term inter-academic project on the digital exploration of 80,000 seals from ancient Mesopotamia Seals (Sumerian: kišib) and their impressions on clay form the oldest and most extensive group of images that have survived from what is now known as the Middle East or West Asia. The sealing ...

TAP - Togolok Archaeological Project (Turkmenistan)

Dr. Barbara Cerasetti

We are pleased to announce that in Autumn 2025 the exhibition “ Rise of Cultures in Turkmenistan. Bronze Age Mariana and the Parthian Kingdom ” will open in Rome at the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini. The event is organized by Roma Capitale , Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni ...

Gird-i-Begum (Irakisch-Kurdistan)

Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock

Gird-i Begum (Iraqi Kurdistan) Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock In the summer of 2022 a team from Freie Universität Berlin, in cooperation with the Department of Antiquities in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, began renewed excavations at the site of Gird-i Begum in the Shahrizor Plain. The site had ...

Varamin Plain Project (Iran)

Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock

The Varamin Plain Project (VPP) is a cooperation between the Institute for Western Asian Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), under the direction of Prof. Dr. Morteza Hessari, Prof. Dr. Susan Pollock, and Prof. Reinhard Bernbeck. ...

Tell Ushayer (Jordanien)

Dominik Bonatz

Archäologische Voruntersuchungen an dem nahe Irbid, in Nordjordanien gelegenen Fundort Tell Ushayer weisen auf eine für die Späte Bronzezeit und Frühe Eisenzeit höchst interessante bauliche Anlage. Der Tell ist auf seinem Plateau mit einer monumentalen, kreisrunden Befestigungsmauer umgeben. ...

Iranian Highlands Project (Iran)

Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock

The Iranian Highlands: Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies The Iranian highlands play a central role in many periods of cultural development in the wider region. Highland societies were in close contact with the surrounding regions with which political and economic relationships ...

Megaliths on Sumatra (Indonesien)

Dominik Bonatz

Telling Stones - Megaliths on Sumatra Impressive megalithic remains scatter on many of the thousands of Indonesian islands: from Sumatra, Nias and Java in the west, to Sulawesi in the north and Sumba and Flores in the east of the archipelago. The morphological diversity of the stone buildings ...

Gerçin Höyük (Türkei)

Dominik Bonatz

K.W.I. für Anthropologie (Deutschland, Berlin)

Susan Pollock

Tempelhofer Flugfeld (Deutschland, Berlin)

Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock

Tell Schech Hamad (Syria)

Hartmut Kühne

DFG long term project since 1978 (since 1980 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Kühne) Project partners: Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Röllig, Universität Tübingen Asaad Mahmoud, Direktor i.R. des Museums von Deir az-Zor, Syrien   Please find more detailed informations on the ...