Expedition Magazine

Vol. 1 / No. 1

By: Rodney S. Young

The Gordion Tomb: The successful search at Gordion in Turkey for the tomb of a king who reigned in the eighth century before Christ.

The Museum expedition first went to work at Gordion in 1950. Always before the eyes of its members stood the […]

Vol. 2 / No. 2

By: Rodney S. Young

The traveller in Near Eastern lands cannot help but be struck by the hundreds of ancient mounds–Tels or Tepes or […]

Vol. 3 / No. 2

By: Rodney S. Young

Egnatia lay on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy a few miles above Brundisium (Brindisi) and at the point where […]

Vol. 4 / No. 4

By: Rodney S. Young

An earlier essay in Expedition (Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 1960) attempted to answer the favorite question of visitors to almost […]

Vol. 6 / No. 1

By: Froelich Rainey, Rodney S. Young, Samuel Noah Kramer and William R. Coe

South Asia The Museum’s Director, Dr. Rainey, and Professor W. Norman Brown, Chairman of the South Asia Regional Studies Department […]

Vol. 7 / No. 3

By: Rodney S. Young

Few excavators are inclined to utter cries of joy when they happen upon a mosaic floor. Mosaics cannot in good […]

Vol. 11 / No. 1

By: Rodney S. Young

After nearly twenty years of activity at Gordion it is perhaps well to look back, to recall the reasons for […]

Vol. 16 / No. 3

By: Rodney S. Young

Near the beginning of his history Herodotus tells us that “Midas son of Gordios, king of Phrygia was the first […]