The earliest cities in the world arose in a dynamic wetland environment at the intersection of the Tigris-Euphrates delta and the shore of the Persian Gulf during the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE. Recent work at the site of Lagash, led by the Penn Museum, in collaboration with the University of Pisa and Cambridge University, focuses […]

ARCE-PA Lecture Sunday, May 7 at 3:30pm Penn Museum, Classroom L2 Speaker: Dr. Jessica Tomkins, Assistant Professor of History, Wofford College Lecture Topic: Rethinking Old Kingdom Kingship Abstract: Following Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs, our understanding of Egyptian society advanced at lightning speed with every new text published. However, this rapid pace of scholarship also caused certain […]