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The Navajo Hooghan

In the American Southwest Exhibition, visitors can stand inside a Navajo Hooghan. The "hooghan" (hou...

Greece

The Greeks were the pre-eminent merchants of the Mediterranean world. Even in the Bronze Age their c...

Greek Grave Stela

The design of this Greek grave relief is common for the Classical period of the 5th and 4th centurie...

Etruscan Italy

The Etruscans dominated the central part of the Italic peninsula during the late 8th through the 6th...

Egyptian Door Socket

This door socket is from Hierakonpolis in southern Egypt, an important place because its rulers beca...

Closing Credits

We hope you enjoyed the tour. Please come and visit us in person in Philadelphia! This ASL video ...

Sarcophagus from Canaan (ca. 1250-1150 BCE)

At Beth Shean, fragments of fifty clay sarcophagi were found in reused Early Bronze Age tombs. These...

Egyptian Mummy of a Child (ca. 1CE)

This is an example of a mummy of a young boy from the Roman period in Egypt about 2,000 years ago. W...

Canaan and Israel

The Penn Museum holds nearly 25,000 artifacts from excavations in the Levant, a geographical area th...

Buddhist Asia

The exhibit Buddhism: History and Diversity of a Great Tradition, currently on display in the Museum...

Statue of Avalokitesvara from 18th Century Tibet

Statue of Avalokitesvara, Tibet, 18th Century, Brass, H. 53 cm. Penn Museum Object 85-28-5....

Attic Black Amphora from ca. 540-530 BCE

One of the most important objects in the gallery is the large amphora of c. 540-530 BCE decorated wi...

Gordion: Open-Air Archaeological Site as Garden, Historical Landscape as Park

By the 1990s, after more than 40 years of archaeological investigation, the deterioration of the sta...

At the Limits: Long Distance Trade in the time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kings

Yale University's Professor of Classics and History, Joseph G. Manning, presents "At the Limits: Lon...

Secrets of the Silk Road Symposium: Closing Remarks

Closing remarks from Wang Binghua, Director Emeritus of the Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology for th...

Looking East from Constantinople: Byzantium and the Silk Road by Dr. Robert G. Ousterhout

Medieval Constantinople was the greatest emporium of the eastern Mediterranean, where East and West ...

Secrets of the Silk Road: Xuan Zang and Buddhism

The Penn Museum's Keeper of the Asian Collections, Stephen Lang, discusses the Buddhist monk Xuan Za...

Secrets of the Silk Road: Tang Taizong's Noble Steeds

An introduction to the Penn Museum's famous Tang dynasty horse sculptures with the University of Pen...

India 1957 Reel 12 of 44

Cat. Reel 116 1957: Reel 12: India. March 18-22. Maharajah's Palace and crowds surrounding it. M...

The Silk Road in Late Antiquity: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact

Peter Brown, Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History and Director of the Program in Hellenic ...

Nepal 1957 Reel 5 of 44

Cat. Reel 109 1957: Reel 5 Nepal. February 23-24. Outside Katmandu (6mm lens at 8000' point). Mou...

The Silk Road in Late Antiquity by Peter Brown

Peter Brown spoke on the Silk Road in Late Antiquity:: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact between ...

Pakistan 1953 Reel 1 of 10

Reel 1 of 10 Unedited travelogue Lahore

Shotlist

Great Adventures along the Silk Road: Tamurlane's Samarkand

Renata Holod gives the talk "Tamurlane's Samarkand" for the Penn Museum's lecture series, "Great Adv...

Notes from Afghanistan: The National Museum, Kabul

Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Classical Studies and Archaeology, talks about h...

Notes from Afghanistan: Ghazni

C. Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Classical Studies and Archaeology, talks abou...

Notes from Afghanistan: Nationalism

C. Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Classical Studies and Archaeology, discusses ...

Notes from Afghanistan: The Taliban

C. Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Classical Studies and Archaeology, speaks abo...

Seeds for the Soul: East/West Diffusion of Domesticated Grains

Michael D. Frachetti speaks on the East/West Diffusion of Domesticated Grains along the Inner Asian ...

The Xinjiang Textiles: More Corridors in the Goldmine by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Elizabeth Wayland Barber speaks on the Xinjiang Textiles: More Corridors in the Goldmine at the Silk...