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Volume 66 / Number 2

2024

Spotlight On: Strangers in the Land: New Clues about the Collapse of Maya Culture

On The Cover: A frontal view of Caracol Altar 13, pictured in the Penn Museum’s Mexico & Central America Gallery. The monument, discovered in modern Belize, is the focus of Curator Simon Martin’s feature story about the Maya civilization; photo by Quinn Russell Brown.

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Table of Contents
  • Protecting the Ghazni Museum by Mohammad Fahim Rahimi
  • It Feeds My Soul: An Interview with Omar Aguilar Sánchez and Izaira López Sánchez
  • A Century-Old Story, Out of the Shadows by Katherine Blanchard
  • A Clearer Crystal View by Stephen Lang
  • Strangers in the Land: Rethinking the Classic Maya Collapse by Simon Martin
  • Looking to the Stars, Listening to the Earth by Adam Smith
  • Aphrodite Emerges by Charles K. Williams II and Roberto Nardi

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Vol. 66 / No. 2

By: Quinn Russell Brown

From the Editor: The Message Inside a Monument

For the cover of this issue, we’ve stood you face-to-face with a 1,200-year-old stone monument known as Caracol Altar 13. […]

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Vol. 66 / No. 2

By: Christopher Woods

From the Williams Director: New Season of Scholarship

Dear Friends, This issue of Expedition features articles by two of our Penn Museum curators whose scholarship I have admired […]

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Vol. 66 / No. 2

By: Simon Martin

Strangers in the Land: Rethinking the Classic Maya Collapse

By 800 CE, the Classic Maya had scaled remarkable, even improbable, heights. In an outwardly hostile, resource-poor rainforest, they created […]

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