Penn Museum

Simon Martin of the Penn Museum and School of Arts & Sciences discusses pok-ta-pok, an ancient Mayan ball game.

The Penn Museum contains one copy of Meskalamdug’s helmet, a 15-karat gold helmet discovered in a royal tomb at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur.

The Penn Museum has partnered with the Barnes Foundation to license an online tool that lets users get up-close and personal with some of its artifacts, featuring four virtual sessions on ancient history from Penn faculty, scholars, and field experts.

Forensic anthropologists at the Penn Museum have helped uncover the cause of death for Irish railroad workers in a mass grave site.

Brian Rose of the School of Arts & Sciences and Penn Museum discusses the excavation of a tomb in Turkey related to King Midas’s dynasty.

Thousands of Philadelphia students demonstrated their knowledge of Black history during a Juneteenth event at the Penn Museum.

Penn Museum archaeologists have discovered a 2,500-year-old Midas dynasty tomb in Turkey.

Penn Museum researchers in collaboration with the Turkish government have found a preserved royal tomb chamber with ties to King Midas, featuring remarks from C. Brian Rose of the School of Arts & Sciences.

In a Q&A, Judith Schaechter discusses her creation of a stained glass piece as artist in residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, directed by Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine.