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With the establishment of the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica in Rome in 1829, the foundation stone was laid for the German Archaeological Institute. The 190th anniversary celebration in 2019 was an opportunity for a discussion about shared research perspectives for the Institute‘s departments and commissions. The drafting of the research programmes and their review by the scientific committees of the various departments and commissions was accompanied in the board of directors by a discussion process focused on shared research objectives and future prospects. This discussion additionally served to determine the Institute‘s own position in the context of debates – taking place within various disciplines as well as beyond their boundaries – about the content, methods and tasks of archaeology in the 21st century. This document outlines basic principles as an aid for the development of collaborative research formats at the DAI and to further discuss and refine its research agendas and the vision of the future they contain.
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Research under Hitler: The German Archaeological Institute 1929-1945 (2003)
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The German Archeologists Studies in Turkey
Türkisch - Deutsche Beziehungen : Perspektiven aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart,, , 2012
The German –Ottoman relations reached its Golden Age in the quarter parts of the XIX. Century and these mutual relations contributed to the scientific studies in a great extent especially to the Archeological Researches. These works were interrupted by the World Wars between 1914-18 and 1939-45, but today we can state a new Golden Age. After the Republican Period of Turkey, the collaboration based upon a scientific point between these countries have contributed to the Ancient History and Archeology Studies. Then a new way(era) of common lifestyle and culture was emerged between these two countries’ archeologists. In this paper I will deal with the German archaeologists’ activities in Turkey, from the Ottoman period to the Republic period, moreover about the friendship which has raised from these activities