Tag: Jeffrey Quilter

Nation & World
Peabody Museum’s new director

Professor Jeffrey Quilter will be the next William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum, effective July 1.

June 11, 2012

1 minute
Nation & World
The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages

Jeffrey Quilter, a senior lecturer on anthropology and deputy director for curatorial affairs and curator at Harvard’s Peabody Museum, introduces the Moche civilization and explores current thinking about Moche politics, history, society, and religion.

March 22, 2011

1 minute
Nation & World
A glimpse of lost language

Peabody Museum researcher finds 400-year-old document that contains numerical translations of a previously unknown Peruvian language.

August 24, 2010

2 minutes
Nation & World
Casts of monuments preserve fading treasures

The carved stone monolith tells the story of Yax Pasaj Chan Yopaat, the 16th and last ruler of the Maya city of Copan, one of the most important sites in Maya history.

April 12, 2007

7 minutes