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Rise of the City: The Urbanized Jungle: Ancient Maya Garden Cities
Dr. Simon Martin, Associate Curator, American Section, Penn Museum. By at least 1000 BCE the ancien...
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Rise of the City: How the great god Marduk built the city of Babylon
Dr. Steve Tinney, Associate Curator, Babylonian Section, Penn Museum. The great Babylonian myth "W...
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Rise of the City: The Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt
Dr. Josef Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, Penn Museum, and Associate Professor, Departm...
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Expedition - Hybrid Creatures: East & West
In this edition of Expedition video, Drs. Adam Smith and Brian Rose tell us about the iconography of...
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Rise of the City: India’s ‘City of Victory
*Please excuse the technical difficulties. Sound quality improves at 6m 30s. Dr. Kathleen D. Morr...
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Making the Middle East Galleries: Journey to the City
Penn Museum Williams Director, Julian Siggers and Executive Director of Galleries, Dan Rahimi, tell ...
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Making the Middle East Gallery: Conserving the Objects
Head Conservator, Lynn Grant, explains how Museum conservators work with objects before they go into...
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Making the Middle East Galleries: The 99%
What do archaeologists know about the common man? With less objects left behind, how are we able to ...
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Making the Middle East Galleries: From Bronze to Iron
Objects leave behind clues for future generations to decipher. Dr. Lauren Ristvet discovered one of ...
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Installation of the Middle East Galleries
Watch as the Penn Museum staff installs objects in the new Middle East Galleries. With time, patienc...
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Rise of the City: The Forbidden City
Dr. Nancy Steinhart, Professor of East Asian Art, Curator, Asian Section, Penn Museum. For 1100 yea...
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Penn Museum Building Transformation
The Penn Museum is undergoing a building transformation. ...
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George F. Bass
This video was produced in 2014. In this short video, edited as a supplement to the Fall issue of Ex...
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Rise of the City: Rome, the Eternal City
Dr. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, Penn Museum. Often referred to as “the Et...
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Ancient Tuberculosis and Leprosy: Pre-Columbian Presence in the New World
*Please excuse the technical difficulties. Sound quality improves at 53s Drexel Award Presentatio...
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City in the Islamic World: Theory, Plan, Law, and Use
Dr. Renata Holod, Curator, Near East Section, Penn Museum. This lecture will explore the concepts...
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Philadelphia Launch of Culture Track ’17 – LaPlaca Cohen and the Penn Museum
The nation’s largest tracking study of cultural audiences, Culture Track, is back with a brand-new r...
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Philadelphia Panel Discussion of Culture Track ‘17
Philadelphia cultural leaders discuss the findings of the nation’s largest tracking study of cultura...
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Expedition - Powerful Women of Ur
In ancient Mesopotamia, women filled many roles that brought strength to their communities. Among th...
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Philadelphia: Colonial City to Modern Metropolis
Jeffrey Ray, former Senior Curator of the Philadelphia History Museum, talks about the history and d...
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Director’s Town Hall: Building Transformation
Skip introduction: 6:50 Members were invited to an exclusive, town-hall conversation with Dr. Jul...
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What's On: Great Death Pit of Ur
In this new series, What's On?, experts from the Penn Museum will tell you all about the new researc...
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When Science Met Race
Tapping into the class interactions and the assembled University of Pennsylvania and outside experts...
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Dances of Southern Africa
Xhosa Tribe Transkei R.S.A Umteyo Shaking Dance Zulu Tribe Zululand Natal R.S.A Zulu Christian D...
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What's On? Global Guide Tours
The Penn Museum’s artifacts are full of stories from cultures around the world. What better way to l...
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Director’s Highlights of the Penn Museum Collection
Julian Siggers, Williams Director Penn Museum The Penn Museum stewards nearly one million artifac...
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Expedition - Domitian's Rule
There have been many tyrants throughout history. Among them, Roman Emperor Domitian, whose reign end...
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Protecting Stuff Today: Cultural Heritage Sites and the Penn Museum
Brian I. Daniels, Director of Research and Programs, Penn Cultural Heritage Center All around the...
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The Stuff You Do Not See: Conservation for a Renovated Museum
Lynn Grant, Head Conservator In the Summer of 2018, the Lower Egyptian (Sphinx) Gallery was closed ...
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Sherd Nerds!
In the Penn Museum’s new series Dig In! we follow our host, Tom Stanley, as he discovers strange arc...
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