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From the Editor – Summer 2006
Welcome to Expedition’s special issue on Egyptology! Here’s a detailed look at the Museum’s involvement in the archaeology of ancient […]
View MoreBeneath the Mountain-of-Anubis
Ancient peoples throughout the world had sophisticated understandings of their landscape. Specific elements, such as mountains, were often identified as […]
View MoreDavid Randall-MacIver
As a young man of 26, the British-born archaeologist and anthropologist David Randall-MacIver began his career working at Abydos as […]
View MoreWhen Stone Is More Than Stone
Scattered Across the world on the surface and in buried deposits are billions of prehistoric stone artifacts the most durable […]
View MoreHarold L. Dibble, Curator, European Archaeology Section
HAROLD L. DIBBLE, Curator-in-Charge of the European Archaeology Section at the Museum, has been fascinated with stone tools and archaeology […]
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Meet the Curators – Josef Wegner
The Museum’s Josef Wegner, Associate Curator in the Egyptian Section, has been interested in Egyptology since childhood. Growing up in […]
View MoreTime and Memory in Ancient Egyptian Cemeteries
When travelers visit ancient sites in modern Egypt, they experience a static and soften recreated snapshot of a moment time […]
View MoreAn Ice Age Oasis in Jordan
If you visited the Wadi al-Hasa region of west central Jordan today, you would probably find it hard to picture […]
View MoreMiddle Egypt in Prehistory
The word Egypt for many people evokes images of one of the great civilizations of the ancient world and represents […]
View MoreMapping Petra
In 1993 Martha Joukowsky opened a new excavation at the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in southwest Jordan (see box […]
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