Penn Museum was founded on a grandiose scale in the 1880s, and we open the issue with a review of its rollercoaster…
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…
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…
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…