Penn Museum was founded on a grandiose scale in the 1880s, and we open the issue with a review of its rollercoaster…
Finds from Mycenae are altering our view of the role of women in ancient Greek society…
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 University Museum’s North American collections are justly famous and owe much of their existence to Louis Shotridge, a Tlingit elder from…
The Maya civilization of Mesoamerica encompassed the entirety of what are now the countries of Guatemala and Belize and large parts of…
There is no shortage of books on Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and the Amarna period. However, many try to focus on some aspect of…
Classic Maya ceramics are among the most intriguing and valuable sources to reconstruct Ancient Maya society and life. No books have survived…
Jeremy Sabloff, the former Director of Penn Museum, wants to make archaeology more relevant to the contemporary world. ‘Action archaeology’ turns out…