Vol. 49 / No. 3
By: Richard Hodges
My First Encounter with Philadelphia: From the Director
Philadelphia and the Penn Museum have long held a special place in my heart. In 1980, renowned British archaeologist Colin […]
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By: Richard Hodges
Giving to the Museum: From the Director
Philanthropic giving is at the heart of modern American museums—it exists on a scale that makes a European blush with […]
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By: Richard Hodges
The Museum in a “Flat” World: From the Director
The financial crises across the globe during the past year have under- lined what a small world we live in. […]
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By: Richard Hodges
Fifty Years On: From the Director
Fifty years ago, when Expedition was launched in 1958, globalization was a dream as the world enjoyed an era of […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 1
By: Richard Hodges
From the Director – Spring 2009: A New Position To Help Define A New Age
The dramatic global economic crisis could have a major impact on the public’s perception and value of the Penn Museum. […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 2
By: Richard Hodges
King Midas and Rodney Young: From the Director
When Rodney Young opted to excavate at Gordion in modern Turkey, he must have hoped he would have the Midas […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Richard Hodges
Nikita Khrushchev’s Visit to Butrint: May 1959
Enver Hoxha’s post-war communist regime in Albania had close ties with Stalin’s Soviet Union. Even young Albanian archaeologists were trained […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Richard Hodges and Nevila Molla
Decoding Butrint’s Fortifications: Excavations and Surveys, 2005-2009
The painter Edward Lear, visiting Butrint in 1857, was evidently fascinated by its powerful fortifications. Unlike previous visitors, drawn here […]
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Vol. 51 / No. 3
By: Richard Hodges
Creating a Sustainable Butrint: From the Director
Archaeologists make places. Butrint was largely unknown when Luigi Maria Ugolini set out, in 1928, to discover if it really […]
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Vol. 52 / No. 1
By: Richard Hodges
Off the Beaten Path in England and Spain: Book News & Reviews
The Isle of Thanet from Prehistory to the Norman Conquest by Gerald Moody (Stroud: Tempus, 2008). 188 pp., 103 illus., cloth, […]
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Vol. 52 / No. 1
By: Richard Hodges
Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle, 15 July 1941–16 January 2010: From the Director
The recent deaths of Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle and William R. Coe have robbed the Museum of two of its most distinguished […]
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Vol. 52 / No. 2
By: Richard Hodges
Introducing Penn Undergraduates to Archaeology: From the Director
Penn Museum has launched a new expedition. Explicitly for undergraduates of the University, it is a summer school based in […]
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By: Richard Hodges
Extraordinary Discoveries along the Silk Road: From the Director
Looking back over the last half-century as archaeology has become more scientific, there have been paradoxically few truly great discoveries. […]
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Vol. 53 / No. 1
By: Richard Hodges
Penn Museum and Afghanistan: From the Director
Penn Museum has long had a part in revealing Afghan archaeological history. In 1953, at Director Froelich Rainey’s instigation, Rodney […]
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By: Stefano Campana, Michelle Hobart and Richard Hodges
In Search of San Pietro d’Asso
The Via Cassia was one of the main arteries connecting Rome to its northwest provinces. It crossed the rolling hills […]
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Vol. 53 / No. 2
By: Richard Hodges
Penn Museum and Italy: From the Director
The archaeology of Italy, the bel paese or beautiful country, has long held a deep attraction for archaeologists and members […]
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Vol. 53 / No. 3
By: Richard Hodges
Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum: From the Director
Penn museum has been changing, gallery by gallery. The old Museum presented glorious objects in an often dry and uninspiring […]
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Vol. 54 / No. 1
By: Richard Hodges
The Wonders of Copan at the Penn Museum: From the Director
On my visit to Copan last summer to attend a meeting dedicated to the Penn Museum’s MAYA 2012: Lords of […]
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By: Richard Hodges
Rodney Young, his noblesse oblige, and the OSS in Greece
Classical Spies: America n Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece by Susan Heuck Allen (Ann Arbor: University […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 3
By: Richard Hodges and John Mitchell
The Forty Saints Reconsidered
Spectacularly situated above the Straits of Corfu in southern Albania, this large, complex church was built in Late Antiquity- probably […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
By: David Hernandez and Richard Hodges
Kalivo: The Vaunting Ambition of King Pyrrhus at Butrint
Kalivo The Vaunting Ambition of King Pyrrhus at Butrint [authors] THE MAJESTIC, fortified hilltop site of Kalivo is always overshadowed […]
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