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Dr. Dawkins visited the Museum's exhibition, Human Evolution: The First 200 Million Years

Globally renowned evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins received the Penn Museum's Wilto...

Year of Water Spring Symposium: The Blue Frontier, Part I

Year of Water Spring Symposium The Blue Frontier: Water in a Modern World This spring symposium,...

The Maya and 2012: Fact, Fantasy, and Phenomenon

The Maya and 2012: Fact, Fantasy, and Phenomenon In recent years there has been a gathering storm o...

Year of Water Spring Symposium: The Blue Frontier, Part IV

This spring symposium, part of Penn's Year of Water, explores water as a force in modern societies a...

Great Battles: The Siege and Fall of Masada

"Great Battles" Evening Lecture The Siege and Fall of Masada In the 1st century BCE, King Herod th...

Year of Water Spring Symposium: The Blue Frontier, Part II

Year of Water Spring Symposium The Blue Frontier: Water in a Modern World This spring symposium,...

Cultural Encounters in the Diaspora: When African and African-American Cultures Meet

Dr. Cheikh Anta Babou, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches African Histo...

Financial Crisis! Economic Lessons from Ancient Athens

Edward E. Cohen, Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Trustee Eme...

Afghan Wars, Oriental Carpets, and Globilization.

Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan, a traveling exhibition organized by the Textile Museum of C...

Isaiah Zagar visited the Lod Mosaic

Renowned mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, founding artist of the Philadelphia Magic Gardens, visited th...

Ancient Artifacts In Court: How the Case of Rubin v. Iran Could Affect Museums

In this lunchtime lecture, Laina Lopez, an attorney with Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, will discus...

A Journey Through the Museum Galleries (1999)

Former archivist Douglas Haller gives an account of the history of the Penn Museum, from the the con...

"Windows on the Past" (1968)

Completed Film narration - Gene Crane...

"Other Americans: Ancient Life in Modern Guatemala"

Complete Film Notes from Mary Baker: 1. Native animals as pets on a coffee finca [ranch, plantatio...

PCHC: Contested Heritage: Archaeology Museums in Turkey

Turkey will soon be home to a series of new, state-of-the-art, archaeology museums. Such buildings a...

Welcome to the Penn Museum (revised 1995)

A welcome video to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, narrated b...

"Leptis Magna: Outpost of Roman Trade"

Glen Bernard Director William Kohler, Additional photography...

"Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks & Romans" Promo

A promotional short for "Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks & Romans". Video has a date of 2/2720...

Various Arthur and Kate Tode (Kahop) Collection, Part III

Short edited greeting from the Kahops, only actual footage is of monkeys. Titles contain a greeting...

Various Arthur and Kate Tode (Kahop) Collection, Part II

Various trading post signs and entrances: Cameron Trading Post, Kerley Trading Post, & Red Lake Tra...

Various Arthur and Kate Tode (Kahop) Collection, Part I

City in unknown location Cruise ship Woman in crude pool/wave pool on ship

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Nippur, Part IV

Unedited Excavation footage in desert environment. [1951-1952] Previously misidentified as Tell Bi...

Nippur, Part III

Unedited. Excavation footage in desert environment [1951-1952] Previously misidentified as Tell B...

Nippur, Part II

Unedited Excavation footage in desert environment. Originally misidentified as Tell Billa, Iraq, n...

Kashmir, Taxila, Benares

Unedited travelogue Note that the lenticular portions have not been transferred to read as color ...

Great Battles: From Actium to an Asp, The Beginning of the End for Cleopatra the Great

In the years following the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, internal Roman power struggles—combined...

Chimpanzees (1960)

Partially edited footage Chimpanzees at play and using basic tools Footage of scientists examining...

Mexico II (1935)

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Mexico I (1935)

Unedited ethnography/travelogue Weaving Village life Aztec (?) Ruins

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"Secrets of the Maya Temple" (1959)

Film Print of television pilot featuring Museum Director Froelich Rainey and others describing Maya ...