DOCUMENTARY PREMIERING AT BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE
TOUCHES ON BRYN MAWR EXCAVATIONS IN TURKEY

Bryn Mawr's excavations at Tarsus in Turkey figure prominently in Queen of the Mountain, a new documentary film that will premiere at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute on March 22 at 7 p.m. Students will be admitted free.

The film chronicles the life of Theresa Goell, a pioneer female archaeologist, who gave up a comfortable middle-class life in Brooklyn to pursue her dream: leading the excavation of Nemrud Dagh, the burial site of King Antiochus on a remote mountain in southeastern Turkey.

Goell's dream began to be realized in 1946, when she worked with Bryn Mawr alumna Hetty Goldman, A.B. 1903, who directed the excavations of a 6,000-year-old site at Tarsus. According to Asli Ozyar, who earned her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1988, Goell took over at Tarsus when Goldman became ill, thus sharpening the skills needed to tackle Nemrud Dagh.

The late Bryn Mawr professor Machteld Mellink, an adviser to the film, also worked with Goldman and Goell at Tarsus.

After the premiere at the film institute, Queen of the Mountain will be televised on WHYY in Philadelphia on March 23 and Channel 13 in New York on March 26.

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