ARCE-PA Lecture Saturday April 15 at 3:30pm Penn Museum, Classroom L2 Speaker: Dr. Ellen Morris, Associate Professor of Ancient Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University Lecture Topic: Famine and Festival in Ancient Egypt Abstract: In pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt, two occurrences had the power to radically transform the status quo: revolts and episodes of mass mortality. […]

A millennium ago, Native people constructed over 120 earthen mounds at the site of Cahokia, a World Heritage site in Illinois. Built entirely by hand, the largest of these constructions towered 100 feet over a city that was more densely populated than the contemporary medieval city of London. Over two thousand years before Cahokia’s construction, […]

ARCE-PA Annual Felix Korsyn Lecture Saturday March 18 at 3:30pm Penn Museum, Classroom L2 Speaker: Dr. Rune Nyord, Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art at Emory University and Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow (2022/23) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C. Lecture Topic: “No other satisfactory reason can be […]

This panel discussion highlights tribal relationships to Lenapehoking, the ancestral and spiritual homeland of the Lenni-Lenape and Delaware peoples of the Delaware Valley. Archaeologists and tribal cultural specialists will bring the site-specific landscape and histories to life, illuminating once-vibrant places that remain important to tribal Nations today. Jeremy Johnson (Delaware), Director of Cultural Education, Delaware […]

Around 100 CE, a huge metropolis began to emerge in the Basin of Mexico, one the Aztecs would later call Teotihuacan, or “Birthplace of the Gods.” It quickly came to dominate the region, and, with its completely new urban grid-plan, contained as many as 150,000 people. Its two gigantic buildings, the Pyramids of the Sun […]