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Cairo Department ﻋﺮﺑﻲ

Founded in 1907, the Deutsche Institut für ägyptische Altertumskunde became affiliated with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in 1929. Since 1957 the department is situated in a villa in Cairo-Zamalek. The area of research of the department encompasses more than 8,000 years of history ranging from the oldest prehistoric pharaonic culture to the Islamic period. In cooperation with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, the Institute is engaged in various projects as well as in the documentation, scientific processing, publishing, and preservation of monuments and selected works of art in various museums in Egypt.

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Library ﻋﺮﺒﻲ

Reference library with ca. 40,000 volumes and over 300 magazines and series. The focus is on Egyptology and associated sciences, complemented by an extensive collection of Islamic studies and an exquisite collection of travel literature. The estate of the Egyptologist Ludwig Keimer (1892-1957) provided the basis for the collection. The entire inventory up to 2007 is compiled in a database; for new acquisitions after 2006, see the central online catalogue ZENON.
Please note that the library will have new opening hours from January 2009:
Sunday 9 am - 4 pm, Monday - Thursday 9 am - 1 pm, closed on Friday & Saturday

The library will be closed during August 2009.   

Photo Archives

Some 250,000 photos are included in the Institute archives. Among these are valuable glass plate photographs and the documentation of our own excavations since 1959. In addition, photo campaigns are carried out in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo for various publication projects. Library and photo library are open to colleagues and interested visitors. 

Publications

The »Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo« appears yearly, also the series »Archäologische Veröffentlichungen«, Egyptian, Coptic and Islamic »Abhandlungen«, »Quellen zur Geschichte des Islamischen Ägyptens«, »Sonderschriften« and »Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens« .

Rundbrief - Newsletter of the DAIK in German:

Rundbrief 2008 ( PDF 5336 KB)

All Rundbriefe of the department since 1957 can be found here.

Zeitschriften und Reihen

  

Abhandlungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo
Archäologische Veröffentlichungen
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo
Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo
Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens

Calendar of Events

Public lectures take place at the institute's premises if not mentioned otherwise. Please note that seating is limited. If you wish to receive information about our lecture program via e-mail, please write to sekretariat@kairo.dainst.org

Dr. Karin Kindermann and Dr. Frank Darius
Patterns of environmental change and human occupation in the eastern Sahara. The ACACIA project in the Western Desert of Egypt.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 6 p.m.


Here you can find a retrospective on the event: 100 Years DAI Cairo 1907-2007

Also see the general Events Diary.

 

Public Relations



On the 28th of March the DAI Cairo presented itself on the Deutschlandtag, an event organised by the German Embassy in cooperation with the Goethe Institute on the occasion of the German Cultural Weeks 2009, which took place in the Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule in Cairo. The TV channel Deutsche Welle broadcasted live a top level panel discussion, which was, among others, attended by ambassador B. Erbel, information minister T. Kamel and the elected director of the DAIK, Prof. Dr. J. Seidlmayer. Many of the 1500 visitors passed by the booth of the DAI in order to catch up on the institute's activities and to collect some flyers, posters, calenders etc. A highlight was the hieroglyphic-course for kids, which was offered repeatedly in German and Arabic. Although the course aimed at imparting the complex writing system in a very short time, the children showed enduring interest. Due to the great success of the event a repetition is being discussed.

 

Cooperations

Academy of Science Warsaw, Poland
Cairo University, Department of Geology
Freie Universität Berlin
Deutsches Bergbaumuseum Bochum
IEMAR - Institut für EDV-gestützte Methoden in Architektur und Raumplanung, TU Wien, Austria
Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München
Universität Karlsruhe, Sonderforschungsbereich 315
Université de Poitiers, France
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Schweizerisches Institut für Ägyptische Bauforschung und Altertumskunde
Städtisches Klinikum München Bogenhausen, TU-München
Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt
TOPOI - The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations

Donations

Bundeskasse Halle, Deutsche Bundesbank
Leipzig branch
IBAN: DE38 8600 000 000 8600 10 40
BIC: MARKDEF 1860
Purpose:
Spende DAI + 91890136 + name of project

 

Address

German Archaeological Institute
Cairo Department ﻋﺮﺑﻲ
31, Abu el-Feda
11211 Kairo-Zamalek
Tel.: +20-(0)2-2735-1460
Fax: +20-(0)2-2737-0770
E-Mail: sekretariat@kairo.dainst.org

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Current Projects

Abu Mina Early Christian pilgrimage centre, developed since the end of the 4th century A.D. at the tomb of St. Menas with several churches, pilgrimage centers and dwelling houses.
 
Abydos Important necropolis since early Naqada Period, tombs of the kings of Dynasty 0-2, later the "Mecca" of Pharaonic Egypt.
 
AEGARON A Repository for Standardized Architectural Information & Drawings
 
Dahshur Archaeological research at the cemetery and reconstruction of the ancient landscape
 
Dra' Abu el-Naga/Western Thebes The investigation of the necropoleis dating to the Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period and Early New Kingdom. The discovery and documentation of royal tomb complexes dating to the 17th and early 18th dynasty.
 
Elephantine Examination of an ancient Egyptian settlement of the late 4th millennium BC up to the early medieval period. The head department of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin is supervising the project.
 
Maadi Prehistoric site of the Chalcolithic Lower Egyptian culture dating to the 4th millennium BC consisting of light huts and (semi) subterranean stone buildings, located near the southern suburbs of Cairo.
 
Pharan Early Christian bishop's see, fortified city with several Christian churches
 
Siwa Investigations, excavations and restorations on the Akropolis of Aghurmi concentrate on the Temple of the Oracle and the temple of Umm Ubayda (4th cent. BCE).
 
Tell el-Fara´in/Buto A large settlement mound in the Nile Delta with a 4000 year old history ranging from a predynastic settlement to a Roman city.
 
   
   
 
 

updated: 03.06.2009

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