Video Category: Lecture
New Discoveries in Ancient Turkey
This lecture reviews the startling new archaeological discoveries that have been made in Turkey duri...
Add to My Finds +
Rise of the City: How the great god Marduk built the city of Babylon
Dr. Steve Tinney, Associate Curator, Babylonian Section, Penn Museum. The great Babylonian myth "W...
Add to My Finds +
Great Wonders: Chichen Itza: An Alien City in the Maya Lowlands
Lecture given by Dr. Simon Martin, Associate Curator and Keeper of Collections, American Section. Ev...
Add to My Finds +
Great Myths and Legends: Adapa the Sage: Flood, Myth and Magic in early Mesopotamia
Thousands of years ago, scholar-priests in ancient Sumer told a tale about a man who lived long befo...
Add to My Finds +
Great Voyages: Gilgamesh: Journeys to the End of the World
Steve Tinney, Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvani...
Add to My Finds +
Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe with J.P. Mallory
J. .P Mallory speaks on Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe at the Silk Road Symposium...
Add to My Finds +
Great Voyages: Ferdinand Magellan, 'Our One True Guide': The First Circumnavigation of the Globe
Magellan's circumnavigation was a complex event—a feat of navigation and exploration that also saw...
Add to My Finds +
Before Silk: Unsolved Mysteries of the Silk Road by Colin Renfrew
Colin Renfrew speaks on the Unsolved Mysteries of the Silk Road at the Silk Road Symposium held at t...
Add to My Finds +
Horseback Riding and Bronze Age Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes
David W. Anthony, Professor of Anthropology and Anthropology Curator of the Yager Museum of Art and ...
Add to My Finds +
Great Battles: Was there a Trojan War? Recent Excavations at Troy
Was there a Trojan War? Assessing the Evidence from Recent Excavations at Troy In the course of the...
Add to My Finds +
Great Voyages: Thor Heyerdahl and Kon Tiki: A Grand Experiment in Archaeology
Scholars have long debated the possibility of long distance travel between continents and its impact...
Add to My Finds +
Nigeria's Benin Kingdom
Associate Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University, Dr. Kathy Curnow speaks on "Courtl...
Add to My Finds +
Great Riddles in Archaeology Lecture Series: Ötzi the Iceman
Dr. Thomas Tartaron February 1, 2012 In 1991, two German tourists discovered a frozen body emerg...
Add to My Finds +
The Classic Maya Collapse: New Evidence on a Great Mystery
The Maya of the Classic Period 150–900 CE created one of the most dynamic and successful societies...
Add to My Finds +
Great Beasts of Legend: Anzu the Lion Headed Eagle
Dr. Steve Tinney, Associate Curator, Babylonian Section, Penn Museum The Penn Museum’s popular ...
Add to My Finds +
Rise of the City: The Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt
Dr. Josef Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, Penn Museum, and Associate Professor, Departm...
Add to My Finds +
Great Voyages: Jason and the Golden Fleece
Brian Rose, James B. Pritchard Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. Searc...
Add to My Finds +
The Tarim Basin Mummies by Victor Mair
The exhibition Secrets of the Silk Road explores the history of the vast desert landscape of the Tar...
Add to My Finds +
Great Myths and Legends: The Arabian Nights: Medieval Fantasy and Modern Forgery
The Arabian Nights is probably the medieval Arabic book best known in the west, full of ripping yarn...
Add to My Finds +
Great Beasts of Legend: Monsters of the Maya Cosmos
Dr. Simon Martin, Associate Curator, American Section, Penn Museum The Maya universe was populated ...
Add to My Finds +
Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia
What happens when disease strikes a city of two million people, sickening half a million and killing...
Add to My Finds +
Great Battles: The Siege and Fall of Masada
"Great Battles" Evening Lecture The Siege and Fall of Masada In the 1st century BCE, King Herod th...
Add to My Finds +
Great Beasts of Legend: Centaurs, Sirens and Chimaera: The Greeks and their Monsters
Dr. Jeremy McInerney, Davidson Kennedy Professor Department of Classical Studies, University of Penn...
Add to My Finds +
Great Myths and Legends: Imhotep: From Architect to Deity to Villain
The historical figure Imhotep designed the remarkable Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara built during t...
Add to My Finds +
Great Wonders: The Great Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza
Dr. David Silverman, Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum, Egyptian Section, presents the opening lecture ...
Add to My Finds +
Rise of the City: The Urbanized Jungle: Ancient Maya Garden Cities
Dr. Simon Martin, Associate Curator, American Section, Penn Museum. By at least 1000 BCE the ancien...
Add to My Finds +
Great Riddles in Archaeology: The Ark of the Covenant: Lost, Found, or Forgotten?
Great Riddles Lecture: The Ark of the Covenant: Lost, Found, or Forgotten? March 7, 2012 Dr. Ann...
Add to My Finds +
The Queen of Sheba in History and Legend
Best known from the Bible's account of her marriage to the wise king Solomon, the Queen of Sheba has...
Add to My Finds +
Great Wonders: The Monumental Geoglyphs of Amazonia
Traditionally, the archaeologists have the vast Amazon region of South America to be a cultural back...
Add to My Finds +
Great Beasts of Legend: The Strong Silent Type: The Sphinx
Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, Penn Museum and co-author of The Sp...
Add to My Finds +