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Myth and Kin: Family Ties and Royal Authority at La Corona
For ancient and contemporary Maya alike, ancestors are ever-present and fundamental to the sense of ...
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Ancestors at Copan and Quirigua: Acts of Remembrance
Acts of veneration for Maya royal ancestors at Classic Copan have rightfully received much attention...
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Maya Ancestors and Folded-time Epistemologies
Recalling the Ancestors: Maya Traditions across Time For ancient and contemporary Maya alike, ances...
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Great Battles: Thermopylae: The Battle for Europe?
Dr. Jeremy McInerny, Professor of Classical Studies, examines the tactics and strategy of the Battle...
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Deciphering the Lod Mosaic
Penn Museum members are invited for a private viewing of our current exhibition, Unearthing a Master...
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Ancestral Landscapes and Pilgrimage in Lacandon Maya Culture
For ancient and contemporary Maya alike, ancestors are ever-present and fundamental to the sense of ...
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A Tradition of Trust in Modern and Ancient Maya Communities
For ancient and contemporary Maya alike, ancestors are ever-present and fundamental to the sense of ...
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Walking on Images: Moasics in the Roman House
The Lod Mosaic, excavated in 2009 in Lod, Israel, has much to tell us when we understand its histori...
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The Lod Mosaic and the Religious Landscapes of Late Antiquity
The Lod Mosaic, excavated in 2009 in Lod, Israel, has much to tell us when we understand its histori...
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Rome The Eternal City
From its founding more than 2,800 years ago, Rome has become known as an \"eternal city\" world-reno...
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Iudaea/Palaestina and the Roman Levant c.300 CE
This expert from "The Lod Mosaic in Context" a panel discussion of experts, including Dr. C. Brian R...
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Ancient Roman Hairdressing: Fiction to Fact
Today's passion for staying current in the latest hairstyle was no different for men and women in an...
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Complementary Curiosities: Three Collectors of Antiquities in 19th Century Philadelphia
Penn Museum Scholars Lecture Complementary Curiosities: Three Collectors of Antiquities in 19th Cen...
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Stars & Scholars in the Archaeology of Copan, Honduras
Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle, Honduran archaeologist and Executive Director of the Copan Association, s...
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Contemporary Maya Communities & the Politics of Cultural Heritage
Cristina Coc, Director of the Julian Cho Society in Belize. A champion of indigenous Maya issues in ...
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The Mystery of the Lost Jamestown Fort (1607-1624)
The Jamestown Fort, built in 1607, was the beginning of the first permanent British settlement in wh...
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Tihosuco and the Museo De La Guerra
Dr. Richard Leventhal, discusses in this lecture, Tihosuco and the Museo De La Decastas. A cooperati...
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From the 9th to the 13th Bak'tun in Copan: Celebrations in the Past and Present
In this Maya Weekend lecture excerpt Dr. William L. Fash examines past and present celebrations in M...
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The True Maya Apocalypse
In this 2012 Maya Weekend lecture, Simon Martin discusses the True May Apocalypse. It has taken man...
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Continuities and Change in Maya Weaving Traditions
Barbara Knoke de Arathoon, Curator and Exhibits Director for the Museo Ixchel del Traje Indígena in ...
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Temple of Kukulkan in Mayapan
The leaders of new Postclassic polities looked to the past for inspiration and for practical ways t...
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Uncorking the Past: Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages
Patrick McGovern, biomolecular archaeologist at the Penn Museum and the leading authority on ancient...
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Great Battles Lecture: The Scopes Monkey Trial
"Great Battles" Evening Lecture A Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts Event The Scopes...
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Changing Views of the Past: Archaeology & Epigraphy at Quirigua 1840-2010
Penn Museum Scholars Lecture: Quirigua, Guatemala, Robert J. Sharer presents studies in Quirigua Gua...
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A Tale of Two "Cities": Karphi & Kavousi
Penn Museum's Maya Weekend is one of the largest and oldest meetings in the United States devoted to...
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Classic Maya Gods: Epigraphic and Comparative Perspectives
Penn Museum's Maya Weekend is one of the largest and oldest meetings in the United States devoted to...
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The Structures and Symmetry of Maya Time
Penn Museum's Maya Weekend is one of the largest and oldest meetings in the United States devoted to...
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Greece and Asia in the Late Bronze Age: The Historical Background of Homer's Iliad
Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Director of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, speaks. In 19...
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Keeping Time in the Maya Highlands: Evidence from the Preclassic
Recent discoveries of uncarved stela and altar pairings at El Naranjo, now a suburb of Guatemala Cit...
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Antiquities and Museum Acquisitions: Penn Museum Leading the Way
In 1970, the Penn Museum stopped acquiring antiquities that had been looted from their archaeologica...
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