Vol. 65 / No. 1
By: Quinn Russell Brown
From the Editor: New Word, Ancient World
When I became the editor of Expedition in April 2023, I spent a few days thumbing through decades of back […]
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Vol. 65 / No. 1
By: Christopher Woods
From the Williams Director: Research and Reflection
Dear Friends, Our last issue of Expedition was a grand celebration of our new Eastern Mediterranean Gallery: an immersive, innovative […]
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Vol. 65 / No. 1
Greetings from Lagash
Reopening a dig site in southern Iraq after a 30-year hiatus, Penn Museum researchers made two stunning discoveries in the […]
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Vol. 65 / No. 1
By: Holly Pittman
Back to Lagash
After a three-decade hiatus, the Penn Museum reopened a seminal dig site in southern Iraq. Cities first appeared, the Bible […]
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Vol. 65 / No. 1
By: David Mulder
It’s Five O’Clock, Sumer
What does it take to reconstruct a bustling metropolis from 5,000 years ago? A great deal of fieldwork, collaboration, and […]
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Vol. 65 / No. 1
By: Reed Goodman
A New Story of Sumer’s First Cities
A large expanse of Iraq’s central floodplain, once thriving with life, now lies abandoned beyond the reach of modern agriculture. […]
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Vol. 65 / No. 1
By: Zaid Alrawi
Partners in Search of the Past
Since the 1980s, archaeological work in southern Mesopotamia has been challenged by waves of political instability, economic sanctions, and armed […]
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Vol. 64 / No. 3
By: Lauren Ristvet, Virginia Herrmann, Eric Hubbard and Joanna S. Smith
From the Guest Editors: Exploring a Cultural Crossroads
THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN GALLERY, opened November 19, 2022, celebrates the Penn Museum’s history of excavation and research in the cultural […]
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Vol. 64 / No. 3
By: Christopher Woods
From the Williams Director: A Multicultural World, Like Our Own
Dear Friends, In our last issue of Expedition, I looked forward to welcoming you to our newly reimagined Eastern Mediterranean […]
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Vol. 64 / No. 3
By: Virginia R. Herrmann and Adam Smith
The Alphabet: A Remarkable Journey from Sinai to Beijing
The alphabet*—it’s a seemingly simple invention with a deeper history and longer journey than many people realize. The ancestor of […]
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