Vor 130 Jahren begann österreichische Forschung in Ephesos🏺📜🪔 - das feiern ÖAW und ORF mit einem Schwerpunkt. Ihr wollt wissen, was unsere Forscher:innen des @oeai.bsky.social in der antiken Stadt entdecken? Freut euch auf Livestreams, Ephesos-Doku und mehr: ➡️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/130-jah...

✨ 130 years Austrian Ephesos Excavations:
Today, Ephesos is the most visited archaeological site in Türkiye. Around 4 million people visit the antique ruins every year. Since 2015, the site is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

✨ 130 years Austrian Ephesos Excavations:
1896, an expedition house is built in nearby Selçuk. It still serves as a base for the excavation team today consisting of an average of 200 scientists and 30-40 workers per year.

✨ 130 years Austrian Ephesos Excavations:
On 20 May 1895, the archaeologist O. Benndorf started an excavation in the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, on behalf of the Austrian Emperor. With kind permission of Türkiye archaeological work has continued for 130 years.

Learn more about the activities of the OeAI in 2024 in its new Annual Report:
🏺 142 research projects
🏺 24 monographs and anthologies
🏺~ 200 contributions to journals and anthologies
🏺82 events
🏺~ 1150 media contributions
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In Niederösterreich fanden ÖAW-Archäolog:innen @oeai.bsky.social 25.000 Jahre alte Mammutknochen 🦣 Steingeräte und zerlegte Stoßzähne deuten auf die Verwertung von Fleisch und die Verarbeitung von Elfenbein hin. Mehr dazu ⤵️
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Immerse yourself in the time when homo sapiens travelled through the vast steppe landscape of Central Europe to follow the herds of mammoths, horses and reindeer.
The ICE AGE exhibition at #MAMUZ Mistelbach, created in cooperation with the OeAI, opens today.
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📜 New #papyrus from #Israel about a spectacular criminal case from the Roman empire: A. Dolganov @oeai_oeaw and scholars from @univienna @HebrewU reveals how Rome dealt with financial crimes – specifically, tax fraud involving slaves – in the Roman Near East.
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Happy Season‘s Greetings 🎄

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Another day, another lecture! If you are in the region of Bozeman, Montana, there will be a great lecture later today @montanastate on Hieroglyphs and the development of the alphabet! Many thanks to Susan Cohen for the kind invitation!
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Had a great time @AndrewsUniv working in the Horn Archives on material related to the Austrian excavations at Shechem, giving a lecture on Lachish, and visiting the Horn Museum! Many thanks to Liz Emswiler, Jeffrey Hudon, and Paul Ray for their hospitality!

For those who are in the region: join us tomorrow at 7pm at Andrews University for a talk on the Austrian Expedition to Lachish!

And off we go … three weeks in the US with lectures, research in archives, and work on publications in New York @Columbia, Berrien Springs, MI @AndrewsUniv, Bozeman, MT @montanastate, and finally Chicago @ASOResearch

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Very honored to give a lecture @Columbia next week on High, middle, or low? Establishing an absolute radiocarbon chronology for the Middle Bronze Age Levant. Join us on Nov 2, 5:30pm at Columbia University Faculty House!
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Join us tomorrow (5:30pm CET) in person or via Zoom for a lecture by Oystein LaBianca (Andrews University) on "Shaping Global History Narratives of the Southern Levant"!

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New paper out! Check out our update on the Middle Bronze Tel Kabri radiocarbon dates and our comparison with Ashkelon, Tell el-Dab'a, and other sites! Not surprisingly further support for a high Middle Bronze Age chronology ...
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