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On Wednesday evening, a horn section serenaded families at Penn Museum’s live music happy hour. Just beyond the gates, ...
The story of the myth of King Midas is one of the best known, that Greek monarch who turned everything he touched into gold, but with tragic consequences. But, in reality, there wa ...
Professor C. Brian Rose of the Penn Museum, the Excavation Director at Gordion, Türkiye where the tomb was uncovered, spoke to PopMech about this historic discovery ...
Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management ...
Museums are windows to the past, brief glimpses of another time and place summoned through delicately cared for fragments of life from long ago. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology ...
Penn State offers a glimpse at the West Tower construction process and provides more information about premium seating options.
Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists working at Abydos in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, discovered the massive tomb of an unnamed pharaoh at the ancient ...
Archaeologists discovered the tomb of an unknown pharaoh from a tumultuous, war-ridden era of ancient Egypt. Now they're searching for his name.
Archaeologists from a Pennsylvania museum were part of a time which recently discovered the ancient tomb of an unnamed Egyptian pharaoh.
Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive tomb of an unnamed pharaoh at the ancient necropolis of Anubis ...
The tablets visitors see at Penn Museum are 3D printed recreations, in keeping with contemporary practice of leaving artifacts in the culture to which they belong. And though visitors won't see the ...