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The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology is a small, but very high quality museum in West Philadelphia.
The Museum has archeology and anthropology collections of great breadth and depth - from Mesoamerica to the Ancient Near East to China.
The Museum's most important collection is arguably the treasures of Ur, which Penn coexcavated with the British Museum. One of the two statuettes "Ram in a Thicket" is here.
If the theme of this month’s issue is “Meet the People,” then museums are a neat fit, a gathering together of people across time and space and culture in an attempt to understand and perhaps bridge differences and to share in the ongoing discovery of humankind’s collective heritage.
Recognizing the role that the Bible and Biblical lands have had in shaping the personal and cultural identities of people throughout the world, the University of PennsylvaniaMuseum of Archaeology and Anthropology opened its permanent exhibition, “Canaan and Ancient Israel” in 1998.
They are referring to a woman preparing to weave and a woman on her knees, grinding the grain on a slab of basalt, a volcanic stone, near an ancient oven glowing with red heat from the dung of her sheep and goats.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is temporarily closed for renovation and expansion.
This semicircular silver box with carved lid of lapis lazuli and shell was found close to the "wardrobe chest" in the death pit of Queen Puabi's tomb.
Puabi, like her handmaidens, wore a complex coiffure that either was formed from her natural hair supported by some kind of padding or was a wig onto which the elaborate headdress of hundreds of individual pieces of gold and precious stones was arranged.
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