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https://www.penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/hero-image.jpg||Penn Museum curator and PIK Professor Lynn Meskell chaired a panel that selected 25 sites—from Mongolia to the Moon—facing conflict, climate change, and other urgent risks ..read more
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https://www.penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/feature-image-crystal-scaled.jpg||Stephen Lang, Lyons Keeper of Collections in the Asian Section, shows us where the Penn Museum's crystal ball ranks among the top 10 largest crystal balls in the world ..read more
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2M ago
https://www.penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/feature.jpg||As part of the "Year of Botany," Penn Museum is curating a vast collection of ethnographic materials collected near the UNESCO site of Ban Chiang in Thailand ..read more
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https://www.penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/hero-mcfadden.jpg||George H. McFadden—a Penn Museum Research Associate who ferried spies from Alexandria to Cyprus during World War II—is the subject of a new biography ..read more
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https://www.penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/conservation-hero.jpg||Ask a Conservator Day is an annual chance to shed light on the critical—but often invisible—work of conservation professionals. Penn Museum Head Conservator Molly Gleeson shares answers to some frequently asked questions about the profession ..read more
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4M ago
https://www.penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/hero.jpg||Throughout the 20th century, American archaeologists announced a mesmerizing series of major discoveries in Central America. Looking back at the archives, a common theme appears: The archaeologists listened to local knowledge and relied on local labor ..read more
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https://www.penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/640x360.gif||From charting stars that measured time in Ancient Egypt to surveying space with digital telescopes today, Penn Museum’s Egyptologist Jennifer Wegner and The Franklin Institute’s Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts take us through a timeless continuum of reaching for the skies ..read more
Penn Museum Blog
5M ago
https://www.penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/hero-image-nimrud.jpg||Archaeologist W.B. Hafford shares how the team encountered and solved an archaeological mystery during recent excavations at the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud ..read more
Penn Museum Blog
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https://www.penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/feature-image-scaled.jpg||Across the U.S., the study of plants has suffered from budget cuts and the closing of institutions dedicated to botanical research. At the Penn Museum, an international collaborative project keeps a spotlight on the wonder of plants ..read more
Penn Museum Blog
7M ago
https://www.penn.museum/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/olympics-feature-copyV2-scaled.jpg||Penn Museum archaeologist Sarah Linn shares the long history behind today's Olympic games with elite Penn athletes Aliya Garuzzo and recently named Olympian Isabella Whittaker ..read more