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    Iraqi Museum Professionals to Visit Penn Museum

    Iraqi Museum Professionals to Visit Penn Museum

    WHO:Museum professionals from Iraq, U.S. State Department, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and AnthropologyWHAT:Educational tour and preview of upcoming Museum exhibition for Iraqi museum professionals WHEN: Monday, March 8, 2:30 p.m. WHERE:  University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South S., Philadelphia

    Jacquie Posey , Pam Kosty

    University of Pennsylvania Museum Awarded Three-Year, $1.7 Million Grant from the National Science Foundation for Exhibition Development of "Survivor: The Place of Humans in the Natural World"

    University of Pennsylvania Museum Awarded Three-Year, $1.7 Million Grant from the National Science Foundation for Exhibition Development of "Survivor: The Place of Humans in the Natural World"

    PHILADELPHIA, PA - The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has been awarded its largest exhibition grant ever: a three year, $1.7 million continuing grant from the National Science Foundation to support an innovative exhibition project, "Survivor: The Place of Humans in the Natural World."

    Pam Kosty

    UPM Arcgaeologist Keith Devries Asserts that Enigmatic Ivory Statuette, Uncovered in Greece in 1939, may be Part of the Throne of the Famed King Midas

    UPM Arcgaeologist Keith Devries Asserts that Enigmatic Ivory Statuette, Uncovered in Greece in 1939, may be Part of the Throne of the Famed King Midas

    JANUARY 2, 2002t isn made of gold, but a well-known and much-discussed ivory statuette of a lion-tamer, found in 1939 at Delphi, may very well be part of the throne given to the god Apollo by the famous King Midas of Phrygia.

    Pam Kosty

    University Of Pennsylvania Museum Archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert Discovers Evidence Of Unknown Written Language, Complex Central Asian Silk Road Civilization From 4300 Years Ago

    University Of Pennsylvania Museum Archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert Discovers Evidence Of Unknown Written Language, Complex Central Asian Silk Road Civilization From 4300 Years Ago

    PHILADELPHIA -- After three dusty seasons of excavations at the Central Asian site of Anau depe in Turkmenistan site long acknowledged as a stopping point along the famous ancient Silk Roadniversity of Pennsylvania Museum archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert and American and Turkmen colleagues have found evidence of a surprisingly sophisticated, thriving Bronze Age town, including an enigmatic stamp