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.
Food Meets Photography
High schoolers mix food culture and photography.
An Archaeologist Walks into a Bar …
Unearthing the world’s oldest tavern while reconstructing daily life in ancient southern Mesopotamia.
Pine Alpha
The Penn Museum’s piece of a 4,000-year-old conifer.
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.
For Penn Museum, Will Less Be More?
Staff cuts at Penn Museum
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.
Woods Tapped to Run Penn Museum
Christopher Woods named Penn Museum director.
Modern Look for Ancient Artifacts
The latest on the Penn Museum’s “transformation.”
A Century Later, The Sphinx Moves Again
New digs for the sphinx.
Mounds of History
Penn Museum program links local residents to Gordion site.
Splendid Digs
Middle East Galleries trace humanity’s “journey to the city.”
Earthworkers
North American moundbuilders at the Penn Museum.
The Prehuman History of Cocktail Hour
Don't match drinks with the Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew.
Penn Museum Makeover
Director Julian Siggers on “Building Transformation” and more.
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.
Notes and Whispers
An “extraordinary evening” at the Penn Museum.
New Portal to the Past
Digital Penn Museum expands online access to collections and more.
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.
The Lost Art of Letterhead
The golden age of letterhead at the Penn Museum.
Century of the Sphinx
A big book on the Penn Museum’s “Colossal Sphinx.”