November 19, 2009 3:56 PM
Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor opened today at the National Geographic Museum. By the time NatGeo staff welcomed the first ticketholders at 10 a.m., the Society had sold more than 105,000 tickets to the spectacular exhibition.
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Exciting times here at National Geographic headquarters! Yes, today IS my birthday … but that’s not the reason. In just one week, Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor opens at our museum. More than 80,000 tickets have already been sold for the exhibition—the largest collection of the life-sized figures ever to tour the United States.
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It was 50 years ago in Olduvai Gorge that Louis and Mary Leakey found fragments of teeth and a skull that were part of a male hominid they called Zinjanthropus, or Nutcracker Man, because of his huge teeth. This led to field research programs in Ethiopia and Kenya, the findings of which now dominate discussions of human evolution. To celebrate this occasion, on September 30, 2009, Richard Leakey will be leading a symposium at the Rockefeller University that will examine the development of scientific prehistory research in East Africa since the discovery of the Zinjanthropus fossil.
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September 18, 2009 6:55 PM
National Geographic Society/Waitt grantee Alexander Geurds has discovered some amazing statues in a remote area in Nicaragua. The site is in remarkably good shape, safe from dangers such as looting, but apparently not safe from the occasional curious cow.
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July 1, 2009 4:14 PM
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul opened at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week. Archaeologist and National Geographic Fellow Fred Hiebert helped inventory the collection (and thousands more items) after the treasures—thought to have been lost forever—were rediscovered. And he curated the magnificent traveling exhibition.
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June 6, 2009 9:36 AM
Several of the Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) Robert Ballard uses to probe the deep were on display Monday at the ribbon-cutting for his new Inner Space Center. They're an essential part of Ballard's "telepresence" exploration scenario, which I described in an earlier post. The most rugged of the submersibles can descend more than 19,000 feet (6 kilometers) beneath the surface of the ocean, collecting samples and transmitting high-definition video from the abyss.
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First-graders from Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School, a Chinese-language immersion school in the District, assembled in the courtyard at National Geographic headquarters last week for the opening of individual ticket sales for the upcoming exhibition Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor.
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