Expedition Volume 50, Number 3 Winter 2008

Special Issue: 50th Anniversary
Cover: Members of the Abydos Survey for Paleolithic Sites set off into the Egyptian desert. Photo by ASPS.

Features
Prehistoric Abydos--Africa's Gateway to the World
Harold Dibble, Shannon P. McPherron, Deborah I. Olszewski, Jennifer R. Smith, Utsav Schurmans, and Laurant Chiotti

From Clay to Computers--The Genesis of the Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Stephen J. Tinney

The Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection--Historical Significance and New Research
Emily S. Renschler and Janet Monge

Departments
From the Editor

From the Director

Meet the Curators--Nancy S. Steinhardt

From the Archives--Is Your Mind Ready for Adventure?

Field Experience--Penn Museum's Youngest Egyptologist

What in the World--A Unique Northern Plains Ceramic Vessel in the Museum's Lewis and Clark Collection

Museum Mosaic--People, Places, Projects

Exhibit Notes--Iyare! Splendor and Tension in Benin's Palace Theatre