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Harold Dibble

Harold L. Dibble, preeminent paleoanthropologist, passed away on June 10, 2018, age 66. He was first and foremost a scientist […]

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Penn Museum to Award Drexel and Boyer Medals Regents’ Professor and Director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research at Arizona […]

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Childbirth Magic

Ancient Egyptians welcomed childbirth with ritual, using medico-magical spells, amulets, and various other objects to help ensure the survival of […]

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A Season in Hell (with Apologies to Arthur Rimbaud)

“I will tear the veils from every mystery: mysteries of religion or of nature, death, birth, the future, the past, […]

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Curator Receives AIA Gold Medal On January 9, 2015, Dr. C. Brian Rose, the Penn Museum’s Ferry Curator-in-Charge of the […]

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From the Director – Fall 2014

Last summer, I wrote to our membership and readers from a redesigned Expedition with added Penn Museum departments and content, […]

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From the Director

Since arriving at the Penn Museum in July 2012, it has been one of my great privileges as Williams Director […]

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Revealing a Hidden Tomb

Beneath the sands of South Abydos is an astonishing monument: a gigantic tomb, one of the largest in Egypt, and […]

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Fragments of a Difficult Era

The 13th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, roughly 1800–1630 BCE, was a politically turbulent period with more than 50 kings coming […]

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Ancient Reuse

During June 2013, excavations were underway near the base of the Mountain-of-Anubis. The search was on for private cemeteries belonging […]

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