Volume 56 / Number 2
2014
Spotlight On: Undersea Discovery
Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: Julian Siggers
Building Transformation: The Heart of the 2013–2020 Penn Museum Strategic Plan
The Penn Museum has been committed to public engagement since it was founded. Great strides have been made in a […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: Julian Siggers
From the Director – Fall 2014: Transforming the Penn Museum
Last summer, I wrote to our membership and readers from a redesigned Expedition with added Penn Museum departments and content, […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: James D. Muhly
Looking Back at Fifty Years of Nautical Archaeology: A Review Article of Archaeologist Beneath the Sea
In recent decades nautical archaeology and George Bass have tended to be almost synonymous. To consider one was to engage […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: Gareth Darbyshire and Christopher Ray
Modelling Gordion’s Citadel
In 2016, a spectacular new exhibition of Anatolian archaeology will open at the Penn Museum. The show’s theme is the […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: Jennifer Houser Wegner
Sphinx: Celebrating a Centennial in Philadelphia
We have had raised at Memphis a colossal sphinx of Rameses II about 11 feet long, 11 ton weight. The […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: Cynthia Jones Eiseman
Underwater Archaeology & George F. Bass
From its beginnings at Penn in the 1960s to today’s Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), the discipline of underwater archaeological […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: Simon Martin
Reports from the Field: City of the Serpent Kings: Calakmul, Mexico
If you were to fly low over the forests of southeastern Mexico, about 35 km from the border with Guatemala, […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: Janet Simon
From the Archives: The Old Guatemala Trotters: A Friendship Deepened through War
This is the story of two individuals drawn together through their work in Maya archaeology, who later developed a friendship […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: Jennifer Chiappardi
The Children of Maasailand: A Photographer’s Perspective
On a recent trip to Kenya, Dr. Kathleen Ryan of the Penn Museum, along with Paul Mitchell, Louise Hansen, and […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: Lauren Ristvet and Cinzia Pappi
Reports from the Field: Illuminating a Dark Age: New Work at Satu Qala, Iraq
In 1177 BCE, the armies of Ramses III, the pharaoh of Egypt, fought pitched battles on land and sea against […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 2
By: Jane Hickman
From the Editor – Fall 2014: Expedition Travels the World
The Fall 2014 issue of Expedition is truly an international edition, with stories and photographs from Iraq, Kenya, Egypt, Turkey, […]
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