Penn Museum was founded on a grandiose scale in the 1880s, and we open the issue with a review of its rollercoaster…
Introducing Penn Museum, then and now…
Excavations beneath Copán have unearthed unexpected information about this powerful Maya site.…
Simon Martin on cracking the all-important Maya code…
How did the city of Sweyhat thrive in the Mesopotamian outback?…
David Gilman Romano reports on Zeus' cultic site, with its mountain-top ash alter, famed throughout Ancient Greek…
Until recently, the Middle Mekong Basin has been terra incognita, archaeologically speaking. Now, a team is revealing its past.…
Richard Hodges The Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology, considers the Museum's future…
Penn's Prof. Brian Rose takes us to Troy, the site he has excavated for the past 20 years…
Modern techniques are being used to recreate a 2,000 year old scientific instrument discovered in the wreck of a Roman ship…
Cuds of masticated seaweed, dating from 14,220 and 13,980 have been found in hearths at Monte Verde settlement in southern Chile…
The Buddhas of Bamiyan have revealed oil paints being used to decorate associated caves in the mid 7th century AD…