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Telling the Human Story
Dear Friends, Williams Director Julian Siggers with Project Conservators Tessa de Alarcon (left) and Jessica Byler (right) examining the in-progress restoration of an architectural frieze from the...
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The Mystery Queen of La Florida-Namaan
During the 2016 field season at La Florida, a fascinating discovery was made. A large stela with the carved image of a royal woman was revealed just inches below the surface. Who was this mystery...
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Gallery Sneak Peak
Africa Galleries They are often called “gold weights,” but they are actually made of brass, cast using the lost wax process. These detailed, animated figures were used as standards to weigh gold dust....
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A Continuous Thread
FOR 1,500 YEARS, MAYA WOMEN HAVE WOVEN cotton garments with designs that depict the Maya cosmos and supernatural beings that sustain their world. A continuous thread through the centuries, highland...
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Divinity and Power in the Ancient Americas
November 2019 marks the opening of the transformed Mexico and Central America Gallery. The new space displays some of the finest artifacts of their kind in the U.S., including some never previously...
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Contours of Inequality
Contours of Inequality Landscapes of Colonial Slavery on a Bahama Island By: Allan Meyers and Megan Adams TOPOGRAPHIC RELIEF—the rise and fall of the land—may not immediately come to mind when...
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Tikal—Oasis in Time and War
Tikal—Oasis in Time and War By: Lucy Fowler Williams and Fernando Madrid Fernando Madrid was born 20 miles from Tikal in El Remat Village at the start of Guatemala’s Civil War. In 1973, when he was...
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Understanding the Ancient Maya
Understanding the Ancient Maya Contributions of the Penn Museum’s Excavations at Tikal By: Marshall Joseph Becker Over the years, Expedition has provided readers with many updates from the Museum’s...
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Rotating Displays
Conservator Alexis North (left), Mountmaker Matt Gay (center) and Keeper, American Section, Bill Wierzbowski (right) install a new selection of masks in the Mexico and Central America Gallery in April...
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Archaeology Takes Wing
The Plane at Yaxha, North Central Guatemala. PM Image 202712. In October 1929, fifty-year old Philadelphia banker and lawyer Percy C. Madeira, Jr., tracked with great interest Charles A. Lindbergh’s...
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