Afghan Wars, Oriental Carpets, and Globilization.
Category: Lecture
Length: 53:36
| Video Date | 04/30/2011 |
| Film Description | Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan, a traveling exhibition organized by the Textile Museum of Canada, makes its United States debut at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, where it will be on display beginning Saturday, April 30 at 1:00 pm, through July 31, 2011. Dr. Brian Spooner, Curator, Near East Section of the Penn Museum and an anthropologist who specializes in Afghanistan and oriental rugs, offers an opening day introductory lecture, following an official ribbon cutting ceremony for the exhibition, and the reopening of Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery. |
| Video Category | Lecture |
| Contributor(s) | Brian Spooner |
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