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Penn Museum's extensive collections fall into three main divisions: archaeology, the artifacts recovered from the past by excavation, ethnology, the objects and ideas collected from living peoples, and physical anthropology, the physical remains of humans and nonhuman primates. For curation and display, the items in the archaeology and ...
The Artefact Lab at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum) provides examples and images of mummy preservation. [8] The lab's collection offers insight into ongoing conservation projects on mummies and related artifacts in their collection.
The Penn Museum was established in 1887 to house artifacts from archaeological and anthropological expeditions which the University of Pennsylvania sponsored around the world. Before World War II, when many countries still allowed the exportation of newly excavated archaeological materials, Penn acquired large collections in the course of these ...
The remains of the Black Philadelphians were part of the Morton Cranial Collection at the Penn Museum. Beginning in the 1830s, physician and professor Samuel George Morton collected about 900 ...
This list of museums in Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]
A man walks past the The Penn Museum, part of the University of Pennsylvania, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
The museum said the artifact, which is dated from 2200–1500 B.C.E., was designed to store and transport goods, such as olive oil and wine, and was characteristic of the ancient Canaan region.