City and Micro-Region in the Ancient Mediterranean (and Beyond)
International Colloquia in Madrid and Istanbul (30 October – 1 November 2025)| Pergamon Micro-Region
International Colloquia in Madrid and Istanbul (30 October – 1 November 2025)| Pergamon Micro-Region
In August and early September, our survey team returned to the Pergamon Micro-Region to continue exploring the landscapes that shaped life between the city and the countryside. As part of the project Transformation of the Pergamon Micro-Region between the Hellenistic and the Roman Imperial Period, we aim to understand how Pergamon interacted with its surrounding countryside — e.g., through settlement, land use, cult, and infrastructure. This year’s campaign focused on the Selinus Valley s...| Pergamon Micro-Region
by Robert Busch A new article from our project was recently published in the journal PLOS One. The article discusses the natural potential for...| Pergamon Micro-Region
by Robert Busch| Pergamon Micro-Region
I’m Yaren Esen, an architecture student at İzmir Institute of Technology, and I had the opportunity of joining the 2024 Pergamon Excavation campaign as an intern with the Historical Building Research Team from the Berlin Technical University. Led by the PhD-candidate Léa Geisler, the team has been focusing on the East Baths of the Gymnasium in Pergamon. During my internship, I learnt the different methods of documenting and cataloging the building parts.| DAI Newsblog
Ben Yaren Esen, İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü’nde mimarlık öğrencisiyim ve 2024 Bergama Kazı kampanyasına Berlin Teknik Üniversitesi Tarihi Yapı Araştırma Ekibi ile stajyer olarak katılma fırsatı buldum. Bulunduğum ekibe doktora adayı Léa Geisler liderlik etti ve çalışmalarımızın odak noktası Bergama’daki Gymnasium’un Doğu Hamamı’ydı. Staj sırasında yapı parçalarının belgelenmesi ve kataloglanması için kullanılan farklı yöntemleri öğrendim.| DAI Newsblog
The Archaeological Survey in the Pergamon Micro-Region often takes us to places where history and present collide. This was especially true during this year’s survey. As part of the TransPergMicro project, the Turkish-German survey team explored the eastern lower plain of the Bakırçay river (ancient Kaikos) and the southern Madra Dağı Mountains around ancient Parthenion – an ancient landscape that has been affected by massive land consolidation, the construction of dams and quarrying ...| Pergamon Micro-Region
