Expedition Magazine | South America

Vol. 58 / No. 2

By: Johan Reinhard

Frozen Mummies of the Andes: Human Sacrifices in the Sacred Landscape of the Inca

The Incas are renowned for massive carved stone structures, the construction of thousands of miles of roads, and the establishment […]

Vol. 56 / No. 3

By: Lucy Fowler Williams

The Penn Museum’s excavations at Sitio Conte began in 1940 with an invitation from private landowner, Miguel Conte. Since discovering […]

Vol. 56 / No. 3

By: Lynn Grant

The treatments done by Penn Museum conservators usually relate to a current exhibition or loan. For our interns, however, we […]

Vol. 56 / No. 3

We are often asked about the planning that goes into the design and construction of an exhibition—questions that are answered […]

Vol. 55 / No. 2

Propaganda has long been used to mobilize people in times of war. Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the […]

Vol. 55 / No. 2

By: Kate R. Pourshariati

For almost 80 years, the 49-minute film Matto Grosso: The Great Brazilian Wilderness lay in the Penn Museum Archives, waiting […]

Vol. 55 / No. 2

Matto Grosso’s path to obscurity may have been set by several factors: it was not feature length, it was not […]

Vol. 55 / No. 2

By: Thomas J. Hardy

The Incas by Craig Morris and Adriana von Hagan (New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2012). 256 pp., 189 illustrations […]

Vol. 54 / No. 3

By: Alessandro Pezzati

William Curtis Farabee (1865–1925) is one of the great forgotten American explorers and anthropologists. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: John H. Walker

The Andes and the coast of Peru are famous for spectacular places and things: the mountaintop city of Machu Picchu, […]