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Penn Museum, formally known as The University of Pennsylvania（UPenn） Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania. It is located on Penn's campus in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, at the intersection of 33rd and South Streets. [ 1 ]
Gilded funerary mask, Egypt, Ptolemaic or Roman period (post-300 BCE), Penn Museum. The Pennsylvania Declaration was a statement of ethics issued by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on April 1, 1970. It affirmed that the Penn Museum would no longer acquire objects that lacked provenance or collection histories.
Patrick McGovern, scientific director of Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the Penn Museum, examines a sample of the "King Midas" beverage residue under a microscope. The sample was recovered from a drinking-vessel found in the Midas Tumulus at the site of Gordion in Turkey, dated c. 740–700 BC. Replicas of two ancient drinking bowls ...
Jeanny Esther Vorys was born in Columbus, Ohio.Her father, John Martin Vorys, was a congressman.She studied at Bryn Mawr College, obtained a post-graduate degree in archaeology from the University of Chicago, and returned to Bryn Mawr for her doctoral degree.
Professor Richard L. Zettler in the Penn Museum. Richard L. Zettler (born 1949) is an American archaeologist of Early Bronze-Age Mesopotamia, with special interests in urban development and the organization of complex societies.
Sara Yorke Stevenson (February 19, 1847 – November 14, 1921) was an American archaeologist specializing in Egyptology, one of the founders of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, suffragist and women's rights activist, and a columnist for the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
In 1951, as well, the Penn Museum hired her to perform analyses in a Carbon-14 laboratory that she helped to establish. [4] In Penn's Radiocarbon Lab, Ralph conducted her first analysis of museum materials on a set of human bones from the Hotu Cave in Iran, which Carleton S. Coon excavated between 1949 and 1951. [4]
The institute also publicly exhibits an extensive collection of artifacts related to ancient civilizations and archaeological discoveries at its on-campus building in Hyde Park, Chicago. According to anthropologist William Parkinson of the Field Museum , the ISAC's highly focused "near Eastern, or southwest Asian and Egyptian" collection is one ...