Video Category: Lecture

Using Pollen Analysis to Recover the Pattern of Ancient Land Management at Copan, Honduras thumbnail.

Using Pollen Analysis to Recover the Pattern of Ancient Land Management at Copan, Honduras

Cameron McNeil of the City University of New York presents "Using Pollen Analysis to Recover the Pat...

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Voices from Ancient Maya Skeletons: Advances in Analyzing Death, the Body, and Burial thumbnail.

Voices from Ancient Maya Skeletons: Advances in Analyzing Death, the Body, and Burial

Katherine A. Miller from Arizona State University presents "Voices from Ancient Maya Skeletons: Adva...

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3D Temples and Virtual Landscapes: The MayaArch3D Research Project at Copan, Honduras thumbnail.

3D Temples and Virtual Landscapes: The MayaArch3D Research Project at Copan, Honduras

Jennifer von Schwerin from the University of New Mexico speaks at the Penn Museum's 29th Annual Maya...

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What Pedestrian Surveys Tell Us about the Ancient Maya Masses thumbnail.

What Pedestrian Surveys Tell Us about the Ancient Maya Masses

Scott Hutson from the University of Kentucky speaks at the Penn Museum's 29th Annual Maya Weekend, "...

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Remote Ideas from Remote Locations: Technology in Maya Settlement Archaeology thumbnail.

Remote Ideas from Remote Locations: Technology in Maya Settlement Archaeology

Thomas G. Garrison from Umea University, Sweden presents "Remote Ideas from Remote Locations: Techno...

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Silk Road Symposium: The Northern Cemetery: Epigone or Progenitor of Small River Cemetery No. 5? thumbnail.

Silk Road Symposium: The Northern Cemetery: Epigone or Progenitor of Small River Cemetery No. 5?

Silk Road Symposium: The Northern Cemetery: Epigone or Progenitor of Small River Cemetery No. 5? ...

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Horseback Riding and Bronze Age Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes thumbnail.

Horseback Riding and Bronze Age Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes

David W. Anthony, Professor of Anthropology and Anthropology Curator of the Yager Museum of Art and ...

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Gordion: Open-Air Archaeological Site as Garden, Historical Landscape as Park thumbnail.

Gordion: Open-Air Archaeological Site as Garden, Historical Landscape as Park

By the 1990s, after more than 40 years of archaeological investigation, the deterioration of the sta...

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At the Limits: Long Distance Trade in the time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kings thumbnail.

At the Limits: Long Distance Trade in the time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kings

Yale University's Professor of Classics and History, Joseph G. Manning, presents "At the Limits: Lon...

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Secrets of the Silk Road Symposium: Closing Remarks thumbnail.

Secrets of the Silk Road Symposium: Closing Remarks

Closing remarks from Wang Binghua, Director Emeritus of the Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology for th...

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Looking East from Constantinople: Byzantium and the Silk Road  by Dr. Robert G. Ousterhout thumbnail.

Looking East from Constantinople: Byzantium and the Silk Road by Dr. Robert G. Ousterhout

Medieval Constantinople was the greatest emporium of the eastern Mediterranean, where East and West ...

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The Silk Road in Late Antiquity: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact thumbnail.

The Silk Road in Late Antiquity: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact

Peter Brown, Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History and Director of the Program in Hellenic ...

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The Silk Road in Late Antiquity by Peter Brown thumbnail.

The Silk Road in Late Antiquity by Peter Brown

Peter Brown spoke on the Silk Road in Late Antiquity:: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact between ...

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Great Adventures along the Silk Road: Tamurlane's Samarkand thumbnail.

Great Adventures along the Silk Road: Tamurlane's Samarkand

Renata Holod gives the talk "Tamurlane's Samarkand" for the Penn Museum's lecture series, "Great Adv...

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Seeds for the Soul: East/West Diffusion of Domesticated Grains thumbnail.

Seeds for the Soul: East/West Diffusion of Domesticated Grains

Michael D. Frachetti speaks on the East/West Diffusion of Domesticated Grains along the Inner Asian ...

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The Xinjiang Textiles: More Corridors in the Goldmine by Elizabeth Wayland Barber thumbnail.

The Xinjiang Textiles: More Corridors in the Goldmine by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Elizabeth Wayland Barber speaks on the Xinjiang Textiles: More Corridors in the Goldmine at the Silk...

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H.E. Samir Shakir Mahmoud Sumaida'ie, Ambassador of Iraq thumbnail.

H.E. Samir Shakir Mahmoud Sumaida'ie, Ambassador of Iraq

H.E. Samir Shakir Mahmoud Sumaida'ie, Ambassador of Iraq, speaks about Iraq's rich and long history ...

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Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe with J.P. Mallory thumbnail.

Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe with J.P. Mallory

J. .P Mallory speaks on Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe at the Silk Road Symposium...

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Before Silk: Unsolved Mysteries of the Silk Road by Colin Renfrew thumbnail.

Before Silk: Unsolved Mysteries of the Silk Road by Colin Renfrew

Colin Renfrew speaks on the Unsolved Mysteries of the Silk Road at the Silk Road Symposium held at t...

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The Mummy Replication Project 1994 to the Present thumbnail.

The Mummy Replication Project 1994 to the Present

"Anatomy of a Mummy" Symposium February 26, 2011 Unravel the mysteries of the world's mummies wi...

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What CT Scans Tell Us About Ancient Remains: A Critical Assessment thumbnail.

What CT Scans Tell Us About Ancient Remains: A Critical Assessment

"Anatomy of a Mummy" Symposium February 26, 2011 Unravel the mysteries of the world's mummies wi...

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Testing Classical Stereotypes: Radiology of Egyptian Mummification's Evisceration Tradition thumbnail.

Testing Classical Stereotypes: Radiology of Egyptian Mummification's Evisceration Tradition

"Anatomy of a Mummy" Symposium February 26, 2011 Andrew Wade from the department of Anthropology...

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Uncorking the Past: Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages thumbnail.

Uncorking the Past: Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages

Patrick McGovern, the leading authority on ancient fermented beverages, and Sam Calagione, who has a...

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Great Adventures along the Silk Road - The Plague thumbnail.

Great Adventures along the Silk Road - The Plague

Lester K. Little, Professor of History, Smith College, focuses on plague in this "Great Adventures" ...

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Great Religions along the Silk Road: Zoroastrianism thumbnail.

Great Religions along the Silk Road: Zoroastrianism

Judith Lerner, Visiting Research Scholar Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU) Find ...

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Great Religions of the Silk Road: Buddhism thumbnail.

Great Religions of the Silk Road: Buddhism

Justin McDaniel, Penn Associate Professor Dept. of Religious Studies Find out more about the land...

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Great Religions of the Silk Road: Christianity and Judaism thumbnail.

Great Religions of the Silk Road: Christianity and Judaism

Christianity and Judaism Annette Reed, Penn Assistant Professor Dept. of Religious Studies Find ...

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Religions along the Silk Road Q&A thumbnail.

Religions along the Silk Road Q&A

Religions Along the Silk Road Religious studies professors Annette Reed, Justin McDaniel, and Judit...

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Great Adventures along the Silk Road - From Bukhara and Back thumbnail.

Great Adventures along the Silk Road - From Bukhara and Back

Dr. Renata Holod presents "From Baghdad to Bukhara and Back" at the Great Adventures along the Silk ...

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Introduction to the Silk Road by Nancy Steinhardt thumbnail.

Introduction to the Silk Road by Nancy Steinhardt

Penn Museum's 2010-2011 monthly lecture/reception series explores all the adventures the Silk Road h...

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