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University Museum Announcements
Grants Received By the Educational Department from the Philadelphia Foundation, the Ludwick Institute and the Seybert Foundation to present a […]
View MoreUniversity Museum Announcements – Spring 1979
Appointment Dr. William H. Davenport, Curator of the Oceanian Section, has been appointed Associate Director of the Museum. Grants Received […]
View MoreThe Museum in the Field
“To be a good (archaeological) finder one needs a peculiar quality which is not altogether erudition—the hog which is most […]
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The Egyptian Collection
The Egyptian collection of the University Museum came into being during the last decade of the 1800’s. It was then […]
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The Pennsylvania-Yale Giza Project
The story of the Pennsylvania-Yale Project at Giza takes us back to the beginning of American archaeological work in Egypt. […]
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Tin in the Ancient Near East
Bronze—an alloy of copper and tin—gave its name to one of the periods of antiquity. It is now clear that […]
View MoreThe City of the Hawk
The origins of civilization have long aroused scientific curiosity and inflamed the popular imagination. At least six different times—in Mesopotamia, […]
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In the Tombs of the High Priests of Amun
Dira Abu el-Naga, located in the Theban Necropolis at Qurna, across the Nile from Luxor, was the burial place of […]
View MoreReturn to Dra Abu el-Naga
In the winter of 1968 the staff of the Dra Abu el-Naga Project once more assembled in Egypt, for another […]
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Field Work in Egypt
The University Museum has at present three field expeditions active in Egypt, continuing a tradition of Egyptological research begun by […]
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