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Penn Museum Research Projects

Africa and Ancient Egypt

• Kathleen Ryan's Research in Kenya
• Archaeologists Discover Evidence that Courtiers Were Sacrificed to Accompany Early Egyptian Kings into the Afterlife
• Magical Ancient Birth Brick Found in Abydos, Egypt
• Taxes in Ancient Egypt
• Penn Museum's Excavations at Abydos, Egypt
• Ancient Egyptian Mayor's House Discovered at Abydos, Egypt
• Abydos Survey for Paleolithic Sites

The Americas

• Genographic Project
• Tiwanaku Project: Revealing Ancient Bolivia
• Mormons and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games
• Copan Research and Conservation
• Clues About Origins of First Americans at Clovis, New Mexico
• Prehispanic Earthworks of the Bolivian Amazon
• Applied Archaeology in the Bolivian Amazon
• Prehispanic Earthworks of the Baures Region of the Bolivian Amazon

Asia

• Middle Mekong Archaeology Project (MMAP)
• 9,000-Year History of Chinese Fermented Beverages Confirmed by Team of Scholars
• Cache of Seal Impressions Discovered in Western India
• Minangkabau: Penn Museum Research on World's Largest Matriarchy
• Life Among the Minangkabau of Asia
• Ban Chiang Project, Thailand
• Thailand Archaeometallurgy Project

Europe

• Penn Museum's Excavations at Pech de l'Azé
• Paleolithic Sites in France
• Flintknapping Simulation Program (downloadable software)

MASCA (Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology)

• 9,000-Year History of Chinese Fermented Beverages Confirmed by Team of Scholars
• Glassmaking in Roman Times
• Penn Museum's Gordion Project, Gordion, Turkey
• Funerary Feast of King Midas (Gordion)
• Ecopark at the Midas Mound in Gordion
• Near East Archaeobotany
• World's Oldest Known Wine Jar from Iran
• Origins and Ancient History of Wine
• Penn Museum Finds Earliest Known Chemical Evidence of Beer
• Sex Life of the Date (Artifact Research from Royal Tombs of Ur, Mesopotamia)

• Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project
• Priniatikos Pyrgos Project in Crete
• Vrokastro Archaeological Survey Project
• Mugello Valley Archaeological Project and Poggio Colla Field School
• Glassmaking in Roman Times
• Evidence of Celtic Sacrifices Found at Gordion in Turkey
• Ivory Statuette Found in Greece May Be from Throne of King Midas
• The Gordion Archaeological Project at Gordion, Turkey
• Gordion Project
• Funerary Feast of King Midas
• Ecopark at the Midas Mound in Gordion
• Taxes in Ancient Rome
• The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
• Corinth Computer Project: Mapping the Ancient City

The Near East

• Bronze Age Ceramic Sequence from Tepe Hissar, Iran
• Sumerian Dictionary Project Recieves NEH Grant
• Taxes in Ancient Mesopotamia
• Black Sea Trade Project
• Evidence of Unknown Written Language Excavated at Anau, Turkmenistan
• Penn Museum Unearths Ancient Cemetery at Tell Es-Sweyhat, Syria
• Near East Archaeobotany
• World's Oldest Known Wine Jar from Iran
• Salt Range Temples in Pakistan
• Sex Life of the Date (Artifact Research from Royal Tombs of Ur, Mesopotamia)

Oceania and Australia

• Eggi's Village: Life Among the Minangkabau of Indonesia
• Sailing the Ocean without Map or Compass: Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific

• Radiographic Analysis of Krapina Neandertal Fossils: They're Healthy!
• Virtual Dig CD-ROM: Program Let's You Join a Dig without Getting Fingernails Dirty
• Paleolithic Research
• Abydos, Egypt Survey for Paleolithic Sites
• Flintknapping Simulation Program: Making Ancient Tools