Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

The new Eastern Mediterranean Gallery at the Penn Museum expands the context of Jewish history, with quotes from Director Christopher Woods and Lauren Ristvet of the School of Arts & Sciences.

Virginia Herrmann, Joanna Smith, and Director Christopher Woods of the Penn Museum discuss the history behind the artifacts of the new Eastern Mediterranean Gallery.

The Penn Museum’s new Eastern Mediterranean Gallery, “Crossroads of Culture,” seeks to highlight the social, commercial, and political innovations of countries like Palestine, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria.

The Penn Museum will open its new Eastern Mediterranean Gallery this weekend, featuring live musical performances, workshops, and pop-up talks alongside approximately 400 artifacts.

Michael Danti of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Penn Museum says that the reliefs uncovered at Mashki Gate are revolutionary for Assyrian sculpture in the way that they portray space.

Michael Danti and Christopher Woods of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Penn Museum and Richard Zettler of the Museum discuss their recent discovery of ancient Assyrian reliefs in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

Michael Danti of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses his team’s restoration of the iconic Mashki Gate in Iraq and their uncovering of ancient Assyrian slabs, with support from Mosul University and the Penn Museum.

A team of researchers from Penn and Mosul University have unearthed eight marble reliefs in the ancient city of Nineveh in northern Iraq.

Fatemeh Shams of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Iranian protest chants have shifted emphasis from male political figures and systemic reform to teenaged female martyrs and rejection of any form of autocratic rule.

Michael Danti of the School of Arts & Sciences says that access to cultural heritage is a human right, and that he and his fellow researchers are delighted to have discovered and returned ancient Assyrian slabs to the Iraqi people.