Posted on 12/30/2009 9:01:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Crammed into a single large gallery, the Penn Museum show -- filled with delicate cylinder seals and alabaster pots, and glittering strings of gold, carnelian and lapis lazuli beads -- is at once frustratingly old-fashioned and deliberately retro in its design. Musical selections from the expedition's record collection play in the background. The texts are well-written but long and somewhat dense. They are supplemented by archival and contemporary images of the site and computer terminals displaying the exhibition's Web site and other Web resources and offering visitors a chance to "live blog" about the show.
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check out the vegetation headdress and the banana earrings.
Now we know that Carmen Miranda was a descendant of a long lost royal clan of Ur.
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