Anthropology and Archaeology

Board of Overseers of the Penn Museum presented “Penn in Egypt: Then and Now�

25 May 2012

The cocktail reception and presentation highlighted the Penn Museum’s history of Egyptian research and informed on the current political climate.New York, NY (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 Founded in 1887, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has become one of the largest archeological and anthropological collections in the United States, and has conducted more than 400 ...

Gnawed Roman skeleton that inspired Sylvia Plath poem goes on display

25 May 2012

Sarcophagus containing bones of Roman woman and rodents that chewed her ankle go on show at Cambridge museum The skeleton of a Roman woman and the bones of the mouse and shrew that gnawed her ankle in her coffin, inspiring one of Sylvia Plath's most haunting poems, have gone on display. Plath saw the massive stone sarcophagus and its contents soon after it was excavated in the 1950s, when she ...

Slideshow: Roman woman's remains back on display after 30 year absence

23 May 2012

From finds by prehistoric hunters tens of thousands of years ago to fascinating Roman discoveries from a dig underneath Cambridge’s John Lewis, The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology reopens tomorrow after a £1.8 million refurbishment with a new exhibition charting the history of the county as well as many other world treasures.