Trowel, Cloak and Dagger
Excavating Gordion was not the most exciting thing Rodney Young did.
New Directors for Penn Museum, ICA
Julian Siggers begins his tenure at the Penn Museum; Amy Sadao, assumes her new post at the ICA.
Time for the Maya
No, the ancient Maya did not predict that the world will end in December 2012. Yes, the Penn Museum is taking advantage of the popular fascination with that distinctly North American misinterpretation of the Maya calendar to mount a wide-ranging exhibit examining Maya notions of time and much more about this rich, still-thriving culture.
Reign of Hodges Ends at the Penn Museum
Exit interview: Penn Museum’s departing director, Richard Hodges
Penn Museum Collection Goes Online
New Museum database brings artifacts online
Tlingit Claim on Museum Objects Triggers Federal Scrutiny
Tlingit tribe and Penn Museum argue over artifacts.
When West Went East
Victor Mair first encountered the Bronze Age mummies of China’s Tarim Basin 23 years ago. He—and others—have been trying to figure out what those people were doing there ever since.
On Hearths, Ancient and Modern
In which the author takes a break from the rigors of her own ethnographic research in France’s Dordogne region to visit with eminent Penn archaeologist Harold Dibble as he plumbs the mysteries of early human and Neandertal behavior—and plots his next gourmet meal.
At the Mosque Door
Painting by Osman Hamdi Bey, who played a major role in the Penn Museum’s first archaeological dig, at Nippur in the late 1800s.
The Father of Underwater Archaeology Returns
“If the shipwreck is in the water, why would I stay on land?”
Man, The Drinker
Biomolecular archaeologist and Penn Museum researcher Patrick McGovern Gr’80 has found some of the oldest alcoholic beverages known to history, and he wants you to take a glug. They might just be responsible for civilization as we know it. (Not to mention your next hangover.)
Life and Death in Ur
Museum mounts new show on Iraq’s Ancient Past
Excavating the Cult Center of the Netherworld
All about Abydos at the Penn Museum
Reconstructing the Maya
“Painted Metaphors” at the Penn Museum.
Abby’s Rhodes
Abigail Seldin C’09 G’09 snares Rhodes scholarship
Beyond the Artifact
New Museum center focuses on cultural preservation
A Prophecy Fulfilled
Student-curated exhibit restores Lenape history
Mining Treasures, Close to Home
What they found in the museum. Penn in the World
Fit Enough
An innovative, interactive exhibit at the Penn Museum traces human evolution—big brains, back pains, dental problems and all.
The Reign of Hodges Begins at the Penn Museum
Richard Hodges named Penn Museum director
The Ethnologist Sets Out
William Curtis Farabee conducted pioneering studies of the Amazon for the Penn Museum in the early part of the 20th century. His journals and notebooks offer extraordinary glimpses of the area’s indigenous peoples, and the artifacts he brought back offer an unmatched—and still largely unexamined—treasure-trove of cultural materials.
The Radical and the Restorer
As the international blockbuster King Tut exhibition comes to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, the Penn Museum has unveiled an eye-opening companion show on the radical religious and political experiment imposed by the boy-king’s predecessor (and putative father), the Pharoah Akhenaten.
Leventhal Out as Museum Director
Leventhal steps down as Penn Museum director
Un-Buried Treasures
“Treasures” digs up $100,000 for Penn Museum