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Ur Project: October 2014
By: Brad Hafford
Tomb Fit for a Queen (and King?) Spotlight on PG789 & PG800 Royal graves that might or might not be linked In December of 1927, Leonard Woolley uncovered a pair of tombs that would become two of the best known from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, inspiring many newspaper and magazine articles and sparking the […]
Atlatl Battle
By: James Moss
Earlier this month, Penn students gathered at the Penn Museum to learn how to hunt dangerous big game just like their ancestors. Atlatl is a Nahuatl (Aztec) word for Spear-thrower, a tool used throughout the world, from the Middle Paleolithic up through today. First in a series of Making Workshops sponsored by the Museum’s new […]
Borneo Odyssey – a “Live from the Archives” performance
By: Kate Pourshariati
A visual artist born in Thailand makes use of primary source materials in the Archives in performance art.