On the cover: At the site of Gordion in Turkey, the Midas Mound dominates the landscape.
Photo credit: Naomi F. Miller
By: Alex Pezzati
The University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives houses thousands of 19th centry photographs documenting people and places all over the world. One outstanding collection was gathered by Thomas Corwin Donaldson (1843-98), who had a lifelong interest in Native North American. His collection of artifacts and photographs was acquired for the Museum by department store magnate John […]
By: Jeremy A. Sabloff
The University of Pennsylvania Museum’s archaeological research at the site of Gordion in central Turkey was launched fifty years ago by Rodney Young and is still flourishing today under the leadership of Ken Sams (Project Director), Mary Voigt (Field Director), Elizabeth Simpson (Gordion Furniture Project), and their colleagues from a number of different institutions. The […]
By: Keith DeVries
The year 2000 marks both a month and a 50th anniversary for Gordion. In 1900 the German Koerte brothers conducted the very first excavations at the site; that work, while productive, lasted only a single season. Fifty years later, in 1950, Rodney S. Young undertook the excavations that initiated the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s long […]
By: Michael W. Meister and Abdur Rehman and Farid Khan
Along the Indus River and on the plateau and escarpments of the Salt Range in upper Pakistan, a sequence of venerable stone temples is preserved (Fig. 1). These temples have been little studied, but are significant for understanding the evolution of north Indian temple architecture. By our chronology, presented previously in Expedition (Meister 1996), the […]
By: Robert W. Preucel
On August 10, 1680, the Pueblo Indians of the Spanish province of New Mexico, along with their Navajo and Apache allies, rose up against their overlords to initiate one of the most successful revolts in the history of the New World. After eighty-two years of living under Spanish rule. Pueblo leaders forged an alliance that transcended […]
By: Naomi F. Miller
Several years ago Dr. Ilhan Temizsoy, director of the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, expressed concern about erosion on the Midas Mound at Gordion (Fig. 0. It occurred to me that the most effective way to reduce soil loss would be to have an uninterrupted cover of plants grow on the mound surface. At that time, […]
By: Patrick E. McGovern
Fifty years ago, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology began excavations at the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordion in central Turkey. Within six years, the expedition had made one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. In the largest burial mound at the site (see Miller’s Fig. I, this […]
By: David Gilman Romano
When the Roman army defeated the allied forces of the Greeks near Corinth in 146 BC, this marked the end of the life of the Greek city. The male citizens were killed and the women, children, and slaves were sold into slavery. The city itself was partially destroyed and it ceased to exist as a […]
By: Peggy Reeves Sanday
In 1947 my father, Frank Reeves, discovered Wolfe Creek Crater, one of the most acclaimed geological features in Australia. Located in the flat plains of the Great Sandy Desert some go kilometers south of the town of Halls Creek in western Australia, it is the second largest known meteorite crater in the world. More than […]
By: Dwaune Latimer
Two masterpieces from the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s African collection are currently on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where they are being featured in an exhibition celebrating the career of Walker Evans (1903-1975). The exhibit, entitled “Perfect Document: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935,” runs from February I to September […]