As you read through this issue of Expedition, you will see many changes in design as well as in content. We have a new masthead and a new size. Based on feedback we received from you and Museum staff, we developed several new or extended sections including information on exhibitions and upcoming events at the Museum, and a special section dedicated to member news. Although Expedition has always focused on Museum research projects, two sections will provide even more information on the work we do: Around the World, which highlights the work of five researchers, and Scholarship, recent publications and important lectures by Museum curators and staff.
What has not changed is the quality of our articles about the latest findings of archaeologists and anthropologists around the world. This issue contains features on the Ur digitization project, propaganda posters in wartime, the first documentary film with sound, and two stories related to the site of Gordion in Turkey. We also include what will be an occasional column called Past/Present, three book reviews, Museum Mosaic, and a reader favorite—Looking Back. The Penn Museum family was saddened by the passing in 2012 of Robert J. Sharer. In Portrait, you will read a remembrance of Bob—Penn professor, Curator Emeritus in the American Section, and excavator at Copan—written by one of his former students. A lot about Expedition is new with this issue, and we want to hear from you. What is your opinion about the changes we have made? As always, we appreciate your comments, and you can reach me at jhickman@upenn.edu.
