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
Adventures on the Arabian Sea
Better luck next time for Bronze Age reed-boat
Life, Death, and the Afterlife in Ancient China and Egypt
How Egypt’s other 80 percent lived
The Serpent’s Story—Revealed on Canvas
Aboriginal art explores meteor crater’s creation
Putting an End to “Name-Calling” in Athletics
“Identity theft combined with name-calling”
What mad pursuit?
Window, Jul|Aug 2004
Treasuring the Past— and Saving it for the Future
Museum lays out welcome mat for Iraqi visitors
Preston To Step Down as SAS Dean; Museum Selects New Head
SAS Dean Preston to step down; Museum names new director
Full Circle
University Museum Director Jeremy Sabloff found his life’s path through an undergraduate anthropology course at Penn. Now, after an extraordinarily productive decade at the museum’s helm, he is ready to head back to the classroom.
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.
Where the Wild Things Were
What killed the woolly mammoth?
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
Trust and Chance Lead to $100 Million Gift for Penn Medicine
$100 million for Penn Medicine from Philadelphia Health Care Trust
Report of Higher Death Rates Disputed by HUP
HUP faults report of higher death rates in 2000
Williams Gives $16 Million to University Museum
Cool $16 million for University Museum climate-control.
Ancient Cats, Kings and Goddesses Return
Egyptian artifacts return from travels.
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