An Archaeologist Walks into a Bar …
Unearthing the world’s oldest tavern while reconstructing daily life in ancient southern Mesopotamia.
Remembering Rainey
“Fro” Rainey and the “military-industrial-academic complex.”
At the Crossroads
The Penn Museum’s new Eastern Mediterranean Gallery casts the cradle of Abrahamic religions and alphabetic innovation as a cosmopolitan sphere—not just a conflict-ridden one.
A Golden Discovery
Charles Golden Gr’02 is focused on the “everyday world” of the Maya.
Thread Heads
The Stories We Wear at the Penn Museum.
Two Apologies, and a Reckoning Over Human Remains
Apologies issued over treatment of human remains.
A Century Later, The Sphinx Moves Again
New digs for the sphinx.
Mounds of History
Penn Museum program links local residents to Gordion site.
Ancient Vintage
New finding pushes grape-wine production back to 6000 BCE.
New Life from Old Ruins
Larry Coben Gr’12 is making site preservation sustainable.
Earthworkers
North American moundbuilders at the Penn Museum.
What Is the Future of the Past?
A new exhibition at the Penn Museum considers what is at stake when cultural heritage is destroyed in a war-torn region.
Beyond the Golden Touch
There’s a lot more to King Midas than history’s most celebrated case of “be careful what you wish for.” Drawing on decades of excavations at Gordion in modern Turkey, a blockbuster exhibition at the Penn Museum illuminates the world of ancient Phrygia’s greatest ruler.
The Small, Good Stories
The Penn Cultural Heritage Center was launched to provide a forum for an “intellectual discussion” of the meaning of heritage and the role of communities in preservation efforts. Then came the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS.
Century of the Sphinx
A big book on the Penn Museum’s “Colossal Sphinx.”
Vicarious Bacchanalia
Window, March|April 2015