Volume 41 / Number 2
1999
Special Edition: Searching for Early Kings at Copan
On The Cover: The Yehnal Mask beneath the Acropolis at Copan, Honduras. The polychrome painted stucco mask located on the western facade of the Yehnal Platform shows a k'inich (sun) figure. Photo by Bunny Coates.
Vol. 41 / No. 2
By: Lynn Grant
Conservation at Copan
One of my favorite parts of archaeological conservation is being a field conservator and working with the archaeologists on site […]
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Vol. 41 / No. 2
By: Jennifer Houser Wegner
Lost and Found Fragments of Egyptian Wisdom: Lost and Found Fragments of Egyptian Wisdom
One of the oldest types of ancient Egyptian literature is that known as “instructions” or “wisdom literature”. “Instructions” appeared in […]
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Vol. 41 / No. 2
By: Fredrik T. Hiebert
In Search of Anau’s Past: Research Notes
Before the Russian Revolution, a seventy-year-old American geologist named Raphael Pumpelly headed up one of the first scientific excavations ever […]
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By: Robert J. Sharer
Archaeology and History in the Royal Acropolis, Copan, Honduras
In a tropical valley on the western edge of Honduras lie the massive ruins of Copan. Here Maya farmers once […]
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By: David W. Sedat and Fernando Lopez
Tunneling into the Heart of the Copan Acropolis
Around AD 426 K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo’ achieved preeminence at Copan and founded a dynasty. During his reign, a complex […]
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By: John F. Harris
Dynasty Founder Yax K’uk’ Mo’ According to the Inscriptions
Inscriptions carved on monuments and structures found at Copan tell of a dynasty of rulers, sixteen in number, that held […]
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Museum Mosaic – Summer 1999: People, Places, Projects
The International Classroom of the University of Pennsylvania Museum provided two artist-presenters to the Annual Art Night celebration of Chews […]
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By: Ellen E. Bell, Loa P. Traxler, David W. Sedat and Robert J. Sharer
Uncovering Copan’s Earliest Royal Tombs
The royal tombs found buried deep within the core of the Acropolis are a potent source of information about Early […]
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By: Stuart J. Fleming
Confounding the Conquistadors: Tumbaga’s Spurious Luster: Science & Archaeology
AD 1519, central Panama: the conquistadors were angry. They had promised the Spanish court a mass of gold in return […]
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By: Eleanor Coates
Featured Finds from Copan: A Portfolio of Photographs
Eleanor (Bunny) Coates is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked […]
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Vol. 41 / No. 2
By: Alex Pezzati and Jennifer Quick
The Flowering of the Museum Gardens: From the Archives
The University of Pennsylvania Museum sits on a plot of land that had been reserved by the City of Philadelphia […]
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By: Jeremy A. Sabloff
From the Director
The Early Copan Acropolis Program (ECAP) of the University of Pennsylvania Museum has been an extraordinarily successful research endeavor. Under […]
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