Near East
Vol. 59 / No. 2
By: Page Selinsky
Lovers, Friends, or Strangers?: New Thoughts on a Museum Icon
Archaeology is compelling, in part, because it provides a connection to people of times past. It allows us to step […]
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Vol. 59 / No. 1
By: William B. Hafford
City of the Moon: New Excavations at Ur
The ancient city of Ur was dedicated to the Sumerian moon god—today it resembles a lunar landscape. From 1922 to […]
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Vol. 59 / No. 1
By: Susannah Fishman, Jeyhun Eminli, Lara Fabian and Emil Iskenderov
Report from the Field – In the Mountains, between Empires: Notes From the Lerik in Antiquity Archaeological Project
The first season of the collaborative Azerbaijani-American Lerik in Antiquity Archaeological Project (LAAP), co-directed by Ph.D. student Lara Fabian (Penn […]
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Vol. 59 / No. 3
By: Robert Ousterhout
Palmyra 1885: The Photographs of John Henry Haynes
“We pitched our tent by the little sun temple,” wrote John Henry Haynes, as his party arrived at Palmyra in […]
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Vol. 59 / No. 3
By: Oliver Dietrich, Laura Dietrich and Jens Notroff
Cult as a Driving Force of Human History: A View from Göbekli Tepe
As we arrive at the site in the mountains of southeastern Turkey, a pale moon still hangs in a sky […]
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Vol. 58 / No. 1
By: Kate Murphy and Cynthia Susalla
Secrets of Ancient Magic: The Power of Spells, Curses, & Omens
In ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, practitioners of magic exploited symbolic words, images, and rituals to achieve desired outcomes […]
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Vol. 58 / No. 1
By: Kristen Pearson
Sowing the Seeds of Competitive Play: The Enduring Legacy of Mancala
Mancala has been popular in the United States since a commercialized version was intro- duced in the 1940s under the […]
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Vol. 58 / No. 1
By: Steve Renette
Traders of the Mountains: The Early Bronze Age in Iraqi Kurdistan
Within the imaginations of people inhabiting the dense cities that dotted the Mesopotamian plains, the Zagros Mountains to the east […]
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Vol. 58 / No. 1
By: Katherine Moore
The Evolution of Pigs: In the Labs
A recent student project in the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM) uses animal bones from the Penn […]
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Vol. 57 / No. 3
By: C. Brian Rose
Gordion and the Penn Museum
Like many great archaeological discoveries, the site of Gordion was encountered by accident. Engineers working on the construction of the […]
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