The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology will host a free event, “The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart: An Archaeological Search for the Solution to a Historical Mystery,” Tuesday, May 18 at 7 p.m. The event will be held in the Hibben Center Auditorium, located across from the main entrance of the Maxwell Museum.
For the last 15 years, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), the world's leading aviation archaeology foundation, has been investigating the possibility that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, landed on the remote, uninhabited island of Nikumaroro and survived there for a time before expiring.
Thomas K. King, Ph.D., Project Archaeologist for TIGHAR's Amelia Earhart Search Project and co-author of Amelia Earhart's Shoes, an account of TIGHAR's study from 1989 through 2000, will present an illustrated lecture and discussion outlining the latest archaeological findings on the efforts to solve the mystery of Earhart's disappearance.
For more information contact Dave Phillips at: (505) 277-9229.