When in Rome
Darius Arya C’93 roams Rome (and more) for his popular YouTube channel.
Missions and Acquisitions
Penn group leads national study on ethical collecting practices, and a new exhibition at the Penn Museum, Preserving Assyria, demonstrates how archaeology protects cultural heritage marked for destruction.
Vanishing Treasures
Lauren Meyer GFA’02 GFA’03 works to protect fragile historic structures.
All Roads Lead to Pech
How Harold Dibble’s colleagues finished his “dream project.”
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
Archaeology Education Gets an Upgrade
A close look at the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials.
Looking Beyond the Gold
Beneath the Surface at the Penn Museum.
Making Mummies—and Museumgoers
Penn Museum program will let seventh-graders “unpack the past.”
“Know That We Are Still Here”
With the new exhibition, Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now, the Penn Museum and a team of Native American advisors and collaborators aim to “transform your understanding of Native America today.”