Treasuring the Past— and Saving it for the Future
Museum lays out welcome mat for Iraqi visitors
Operation Iraqi Heritage
Museum Web site helps recover Iraq antiquities.
New Space, Ancient Worlds
The curators for the University Museum’s new exhibit, “Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks, Romans,” pick some of their favorite artifacts.
The Magic of Birth and Bricks
Magical “birth brick” discovered at Abydos in Egypt
Spreading the Words
A century after University Museum archaeologists uncovered thousands of tablets bearing the earliest known form of writing and 25 years after efforts began to compile a dictionary of the language, the Penn Sumerian Dictionary Project is going online.
Finds on Film
Photos from a century of fieldwork at the University Museum
Reburying the Past
Remains found at construction site to be reburied
Zahi Hawass and the Secrets of the Pyramids
Archaeology’s answer to Carl Sagan has generated unprecedented interest in Egypt’s past and believes that science and history can “create love between countries.” In a world of increasing tensions, he says that mission is more important than ever.
The Stamp Seal Mystery
A Bronze Age mound in Central Asia yielded a tantalizing clue to a “new” ancient civilization. For archaeologist Fred Hiebert, it was one more reason why Raphael Pumpelly was right.
Sailing Into the Semester’s End
Students sail the high seas (well, the Delaware)
Early Amazon Fish Stories
Pre-Hispanic fishing weir discovered in Amazon basin.
In the Cards
Dr. Robert Fitts C’87
Ancient Cats, Kings and Goddesses Return
Egyptian artifacts return from travels.
Hitting Pay Dirt—er, Mud—in the Black Sea
Flood of discoveries in Black Sea.
The Color of Mummy
Dr. Zahi Hawass G’83 Gr’87
Roman Corinth: They Came, They Saw, They Digitized
Roman Corinth online
New Treasures From King Midas’ Tomb
Phrygians' Wake
Silk Across the Sands
A rare exhibition of artifacts from Uzbekistan at the Arthur Ross Gallery offers a tantalizing glimpse of the cultures along the Silk Road. So did a symposium at the University Museum.
Uncovering Ancient Mayoral Digs in Egypt
Ancient Egyptian mayor's house uncovered
Fathoming the Mysteries of the Black Sea
Unearthing treasures from the Black Sea.
Digging for Clues in Jefferson’s Other Backyard
Dr. Barbara Heath, G'83, Gr'88
The Bible’s People
A new permanent exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology draws on artifacts from excavations spanning much of the century to reveal the daily lives of the Bronze and Iron age inhabitants of Canaan and ancient Israel.
Reflections on the Roman World
The curator of a show of Roman glass now at the University Museum tells how the ancient glassworking industry reveals as much about the Romans as their architecture, thirst for conquest, or tendency to murder their emperors.
Dr. Zahi Hawass
Walk Like an Egyptian And You Won't Pollute the Pyramid.