Deep beneath Australia’s Nullarbor Plain lies Koonalda Cave. Lakes can be found within its subterranean passages, a matter of no little import…
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…
Though huge distances separate the islands of Fiji from the nearest continents, the Lapita people made the 3,000km journey around 1100BC…
Archaeologists make a surprise find on the bed of the River Rhône…
Finds from Mycenae are altering our view of the role of women in ancient Greek society…
The University Museum’s North American collections are justly famous and owe much of their existence to Louis Shotridge, a Tlingit elder from…
There is no shortage of books on Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and the Amarna period. However, many try to focus on some aspect of…
The Maya civilization of Mesoamerica encompassed the entirety of what are now the countries of Guatemala and Belize and large parts of…
Classic Maya ceramics are among the most intriguing and valuable sources to reconstruct Ancient Maya society and life. No books have survived…