A Philadelphia museum of archaeology and anthropology will move part of its collection of about 1,300 skulls, including those of enslaved people, to storage this month after students called for it ...

Come fall, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, known as the Penn Museum, is hoping to give them a traditional burial ceremony that it said was long overdue.

Grave History: The Penn Museum has apologized for its "unethical possession" of a collection of human skulls belonging to Black Americans and slaves. Following years of protests by students and ...

A new center on Penn’s campus will allow students and faculty to study nearly any type of archaeology they want. The Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, which opened in the Penn ...

An audience of about 200 filled the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to hear an award-winning National Geographic Society archaeologist talk about his expeditions regarding Noah’s ark. This ...

The Penn Museum continues to support archaeological expeditions around the world, including in Egypt. Wegner, for example, works regularly at the site of the ancient city of Abydos. Since 20th-century ...

The story of the myth of King Midas is one of the best known, that Greek monarch who turned everything he touched into gold, ...

Penn Museum’s exhibit titled “Ancient Food & Flavor,” recently opened on June 3, poses the question, “What can burned seeds, dried meats, or waterlogged fruits, remarkably preserved for ...

The University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology turns 125 today. The museum is opening its doors to the public, providing a rare glimpse behind the scenes.

Professor C. Brian Rose of the Penn Museum, the Excavation Director at Gordion, Türkiye where the tomb was uncovered, spoke ...

That's how University of Pennsylvania President, Amy Gutmann, described the planned mass renovation to the school's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (commonly known as the Penn Museum).

Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, ... burial chamber,” Penn Museum Curator of the Egyptian Section and University of Pennsylvania professor of Egyptian Archaeology Dr. Josef Wegner shared.