Explore the Archaeology of the Mediterranean

Site Name Keywords
Fara (Iraq) • Damghan • Tepe Hissar • Persepolis

Other Keywords
Photography • Mythology • Midas • Alexander the Great • archaeobotany

Culture Keywords
Etruscan

Investigation Types
Collections Research • Remote Sensing

Material Types
Ceramic • Fauna • Metal • Mineral

Temporal Keywords
Early Etruscan • Villanovan • Orientalizing • Middle Etruscan • "Classical" • Late Etruscan • "Hellenistic" • Archaic

Geographic Keywords
Asia (Continent) • Republic of Turkey (Country) • Iran • IR (ISO Country Code) • Islamic Republic of Iran (Country) • IT (ISO Country Code) • Italian Republic (Country) • Anatolia • SM (ISO Country Code) • The Holy See (State of the Vatican City) (Country)

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  • Botanical Aspects of Environment and Economy at Gordion, Turkey
    PROJECT Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    The archaeological site of Gordion is most famous as the home of the Phrygian king Midas and as the place where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot on his way to conquer Asia. Located in central Anatolia (present-day Turkey) near the confluence of the Porsuk and Sakarya rivers, Gordion also lies on historic trade routes between east and west as well as north to the Black Sea. Favorably situated for long-distance trade, Gordion's setting is marginal for agricultural cultivation but well...

  • Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend
    PROJECT Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    This volume is the first comprehensive account of Etruscan mythology, an elusive and difficult subject because no Etruscan textual narratives have survived from antiquity. In order to interpret the myths and make the Etruscans come alive for us today, Nancy Thomson de Grummond acts as an archaeological detective piecing together evidence from representations in art, from archaeological sites, and from indirect accounts of Etruscan lore in Greek and Roman texts. She starts with the purely...

  • Exploring Iran: The Photography of Erich F. Schmidt, 1930-1940
    PROJECT Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    The Penn Museum's first archaeological expedition to Iran took place in 1931, when Erich F. Schmidt excavated the Bronze Age site of Tepe Hissar near the town of Damghan and the monumental buildings of the pre-Islamic Sasanian Palace. In this part of his adventurous and courageous life, Schmidt, then a young German WWI veteran who had received his Ph.D. degree under Franz Boas at Columbia University, documented the project with nearly 2,600 culturally significant photos—many under far from...