Video Category: Lecture

From Skulls and Scans
How Brain Measurements Have Been Used, Misused and Misunderstood in the Study of Racial Differences ...
Add to My Finds +
Great Riddles in Archaeology, Atlantis: The Lost Continent?
Dr. Brian Rose April 4, 2012 When the Greek philosopher Plato first described an advanced civili...
Add to My Finds +
Love Hurts: Salacious Tales of Romance in the Ancient World
February 9, 2012 Dr. Jennifer Wegner, Associate Curator of the Egyptian Section at the Penn Museu...
Add to My Finds +
Great Riddles in Archaeology: The Ark of the Covenant: Lost, Found, or Forgotten?
Great Riddles Lecture: The Ark of the Covenant: Lost, Found, or Forgotten? March 7, 2012 Dr. Ann...
Add to My Finds +
Annual "Reports from the Field"
Dr. Josef Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, and Dr. Richard M. Leventhal, Director, Penn ...
Add to My Finds +
Decoding Plant and Animal Symbols from the Royal Cemetery (Ur, Iraq)
Dr. Naomi F. Miller and Dr. Richard L. Zettler February 15, 2012 One of the most important proje...
Add to My Finds +
Beauty through the Ages Lecture and Luncheon Home Décor: Cave to Castle
Dr. Janet Monge and Barbara Eberlein February 13, 2012 Dr. Janet Monge, Associate Curator and Ke...
Add to My Finds +
Pergamon and its Maritime Satellite Elaia
Pergamon and its Maritime Satellite Elaia: New Research on Urban Space and the Territory of a Hellen...
Add to My Finds +
Saving Haiti's Cultural Heritage After the Earthquake
Penn Cultural Heritage Center: Saving Haiti Dr. Richard Kurin January 26, 2012 www.pennchc.or...
Add to My Finds +
Great Riddles in Archaeology Lecture Series: Ötzi the Iceman
Dr. Thomas Tartaron February 1, 2012 In 1991, two German tourists discovered a frozen body emerg...
Add to My Finds +
From Plunder to Partnership: American Adventures in the Archaeology of Cyprus
Dr. Ellen Herscher January 13, 2012 In the late 19th century, the notorious American consul in C...
Add to My Finds +
Great Riddles in Archaeology: El Dorado in the Americas
Dr. Clark Erickson January 4, 2012 Great Riddles in Archaeology Lecture Series El Dorado in the...
Add to My Finds +
Imagine Africa Lecture Series: Penn in Botswana
Harvey Friedman November 30, 2011 Much has changed in Botswana since President Festus Mogae warn...
Add to My Finds +
The Lure of the Relic: Collecting and Consuming Artifacts from the Holy Land
December 1, 2011 Dr. Morag Kersel The relationship between people and things is a crucial avenue...
Add to My Finds +
Great Riddles in Archaeology: Merlin's Magic Circles
December 7, 2011 Timothy Darvill Stonehenge in central southern England is known the world over ...
Add to My Finds +
Climate Crises in Human History
November 19, 2011 Graeme Barker, Joseph Farrell, & Robert Giegengack Penn Museum presents an aft...
Add to My Finds +
Great Riddles in Archaeology: Noah's Ark
Great Riddles in Archaeology Lecture Series at the Penn Museum Noah's Ark One of the bestknown Bibl...
Add to My Finds +
"Beauty Through the Ages" Jewelry: Worn to Adorn
The Women's Committee of the Penn Museum invites you to the first in a luncheon series exploring the...
Add to My Finds +
Imagine Africa Lecture Series: Africa and the World
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, f...
Add to My Finds +
Antiquities and Museums: The Story of the Getty
Jason Felch & Ralph Frammolino A Penn Cultural Heritage Center Lecture, www.pennchc.org. Jason...
Add to My Finds +
Great Riddles in Archaeology: King Arthur, Camelot, and the Quest for a Holy Grail
For centuries, the legend of King Arthur, Camelot and the quest for the Holy Grail has captivated th...
Add to My Finds +
A Tale of Two Cities in Dark Age Crete: Karphi and Kavousi
A lecture by Leslie Preston Day given at the Penn Museum on April 13th, 2011. The complex palati...
Add to My Finds +
pXRF at the Penn Museum
A Museum Scholars presentation given by Penn Museum Assistant Conservator Nina Owezarek on the Penn ...
Add to My Finds +
Making a Monument: The Fall and Rise of the World Trade Center
Minoru Yamasaki's design for the World Trade Center, unveiled in 1964, was harshly criticized, only ...
Add to My Finds +
The Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai
Roberto Nardi presents "The Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai: Conservation of the 6th Century M...
Add to My Finds +
Forging International Relations through Cultural Heritage: The Case of China and America
Cultural heritage issues have recently come to the fore in China's foreign relations. Just last year...
Add to My Finds +
Preserving the Maya Past
Preserving the Maya Past: A Community Heritage Project Dr. Richard Leventhal, Professor, Anthropo...
Add to My Finds +
Changing Views of the Past: Archaeology and Epigraphy at Quirigua, Guatemala 1840 - 2010
Robert Sharer presents "Changing Views of the Past: Archaeology and Epigraphy at Quirigua, Guatemala...
Add to My Finds +
The Penn Museum Glazed Luohan in Context: Chinese Buddhist Art During the 10th-12th Centuries
Derek Gillman, Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation, considers a famous Penn Mu...
Add to My Finds +
Traveling the Silk Road Today
A Conversation with Colin Thubron, Travel Writer Take a magic-carpet ride along the length of the...
Add to My Finds +