The art and artefacts of ancient Egypt are still familiar around the world, but how much do we know about the people…
Publications with numerous glossy photographs showing the wonders and beauty of the world in which we live are, these days, ten a…
Snapshot of the Dead Sea Scrolls and their relevance to world history.…
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…
Introducing Penn Museum, then and now…
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…
Until recently, the Middle Mekong Basin has been terra incognita, archaeologically speaking. Now, a team is revealing its past.…
Excavations beneath Copán have unearthed unexpected information about this powerful Maya site.…
Simon Martin on cracking the all-important Maya code…
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…