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Gordion CollectionGordion 1957 (1957)

All rights are reserved by the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or email films@museum.upenn.edu.

This film and all of the films in the Penn Museum collection are copyrighted by the Penn Museum, and are not in the public domain.

Unedited footage. Excavations in the Great Tumulus. Turkey


This movie is part of the collection: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Films

Producer: Gordion Collection
Audio/Visual: silent, color
Keywords: Turkey; Antiquities; King Midas

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Reviewer: Eva Vikstrom - - May 25, 2008
Subject: Digging Out a Tomb in Turkey
The Penn Museum should provide information about the films, not only repeat the same phrase - over and over again - about not touching anything. There must have been some misuse of the movies here, but most people do not steal films. Searching for information on the Gordion film, I found an excellent source on the museum's website - the Expeditions Magazine. All issues of the magazine are now available as pdf:s. The first issue from 1958 contains an article on the Gordion tomb (http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/Zine/1.1.shtml). The Details for this and other films could be complemented with links to relevant issues of Expedition.

The footage from Gordion depicts the joy of being an archaeologist, to dig up treasures or evidence. It also depicts how American, as well as North European archaeologists, did fieldwork in the Middle East in the 1950s.

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Please see the following link for more information on Gordion Expedition, until further cataloging can be added.

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/Mediterranean/gordion.shtml