Vol. 17 / No. 2
By: Gregory L. Possehl
The Chronology of Gabarbands and Palas of Western South Asia
By far the greater parts of Pakistan and western India are semi-arid climatic zones. Mean annual precipitation for virtually all […]
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Vol. 23 / No. 4
By: Gregory L. Possehl
Cambay Beadmaking: An Ancient Craft in Modern India
Cambay is a small city, population about 50,000, on the coast of Gujarat state in western India. This name is […]
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By: Gregory L. Possehl
The Curators Write: The Museum's Ban Chiang Project
It is my privilege, after the untimely death just over a year ago of my friend and colleague Chet Gorman, […]
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By: Gregory L. Possehl
Shu-ilishu’s Cylinder Seal: What in the World
Some Years Ago, while perusing the great Assyriologist A. Leo Oppenheim’s Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization, I found […]
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Vol. 49 / No. 1
By: Gregory L. Possehl
The Middle Asian Interaction Sphere: Research Notes
In the early 1920s Sir John Marshall’s investigations of the ancient cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa (now located in Pakistan) […]
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Vol. 50 / No. 2
By: Gregory L. Possehl
W. Norman Brown – Americans Excavating in British India: Research Notes
A scholar with many interests, including the archaeology of the Indian subcontinent, University of Pennsylvania Professor W. Norman Brown (1892–1975) […]
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Vol. 52 / No. 1
By: Gregory L. Possehl
Ernest J. H. Mackay and the Penn Museum: Research Notes
In 2008, I published an article in Expedition on Penn’s first professor of Sanskrit, W. Norman Brown (1892–1975), and his […]
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