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Ancient food and flavor
Four people outside looking at a wood planter box filled with plants

The Penn Museum’s new exhibition, “Ancient Food & Flavor,” is both inside and outside, with planter boxes featuring crops from four countries in a courtyard. The exhibition was co-curated by the Museum’s Chantel White (left), who discussed the plant choices with visitors during a recent tour.  

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Ancient food and flavor

Food remains dating back as far as 6,000 years found at archaeological sites are now on view in a new indoor-outdoor exhibition at the Penn Museum, “Ancient Food & Flavor,” through the fall of 2024. 
Penn Museum shows what ancient worlds tasted like
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Penn Museum shows what ancient worlds tasted like

Katherine Moore of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the Penn Museum’s new “Ancient Food and Flavor” exhibition, which focuses on three archaeological sites that provided unusual amounts of food artifacts.

Ancient Mayan ballgame marker unearthed at Chichén Itzá
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Ancient Mayan ballgame marker unearthed at Chichén Itzá

Simon Martin of the Penn Museum and the School of Arts & Sciences says that a newly discovered Mayan stone marker at Chichén Itzá is more akin to a field marker for scoring points than a scoreboard.

‘Building bridges’: Iraqi Global Guide offers tours, personal insight
Yaroub Al-Obaidi stands in front of a sign reading Middle East Galleries inside the Penn Museum.

Yaroub Al-Obaidi is a Global Guide at the Penn Museum’s Middle East Galleries.

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‘Building bridges’: Iraqi Global Guide offers tours, personal insight

Yaroub Al-Obaidi, an Iraqi artist and scholar who settled in Philadelphia in 2016, gives Penn Museum visitors an insider’s view of the Middle East Galleries and creates connections with U.S. Iraq War veterans.

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Ancient restaurant highlights Iraq’s archaeology renaissance
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Ancient restaurant highlights Iraq’s archaeology renaissance

An international archaeological mission led by a Penn team has uncovered the remnants of what is believed to be a 5,000-year-old restaurant or tavern in the ancient city of Lagash in southern Iraq.

Raise a toast in honor of the world’s oldest known beerhall!
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Raise a toast in honor of the world’s oldest known beerhall!

A team of researchers from Penn and the University of Pisa, led by Holly Pittman of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Penn Museum, have excavated a site in Iraq that could contain the oldest tavern ever discovered.

World’s oldest bar? Archaeologists find a nearly 5,000-year-old tavern
The Washington Post

World’s oldest bar? Archaeologists find a nearly 5,000-year-old tavern

A team of researchers from Penn and the University of Pisa, led by Holly Pittman of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Penn Museum, have excavated a site in Iraq that could contain the oldest tavern ever discovered.