16 december 2022
The Termini project, developed by Arthur Weststeijn (KNIR) and Frederick Whitling (Swedish Institute in Rome), involved a contextual historical analysis or ‘heritageography’ of one of the oldest and largest tangible remains of ancient Rome, the fourth century BCE city...
16 december 2022
The project Republican Empire explored the ideological origins of early-modern Dutch colonialism by analysing how seventeenth-century Dutch conceptions of imperial rule appropriated the ambiguous model of the republican empire of Ancient Rome. Conferences organized in...
16 december 2022
In 2011, the KNIR and the SSBAR (Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma) launched a major project of research and valorisation on the Roman neighbourhood of Testaccio. Modern Testaccio is an urban landscape in flux, which poses major challenges to its...
16 december 2022
In close collaboration with the Archaeological Service of Rome, the KNIR Santa Prisca Project intends to unlock and re-examine the legacy data of the first Dutch excavations in Italy, beneath the church of Santa Prisca on the Aventine hill. These excavations, directed...
16 december 2022
The Mapping the Via Appia project is a multi-disciplinary research project that aims to document, study and valorise the archaeological remains in and around the fifth mile of the Via Appia. The Via Appia, ‘Queen of Roads’, became a hallmark of the political and...
