6,500-Year-Old Ur Skeleton Resurfaces in Penn Museum

Bible History Daily Website (Biblical Archaeology Society) ^ | 12 August 2014 | Robin Ngo of Bible History Daily

[mbarker12474]

I just realized this is from August 2014. Received in my email today. Nice site for those interested in this sorta thing.

[BenLurkin]

ping

[Spirochete]

The remarkable rediscovery of this skeleton...

Now our own museums have become archeological digs.

[chajin]

Ur...I guess they found it.

I wrote a children’s musical about 20 years ago, where at one point Abra(ha)m arrives in Canaan. The people ask him where he’s from, and he says “Ur...”, happens three times and the third time the people all look at each other and say, “He must be crazy, he doesn’t even know where he came from!” At least the kids thought it was funny...

[tumblindice]

Dem bones, dem bones walkin’ around?

[Norm Lenhart]

Lets send it back home ASAP as we did with Egyptian relics right before the fun began!

[SandRat]

Quick,..... someone call Dr. Temperence Brennen and her Team path Smithsonian!!!

[Autonomous User]

“Darmok and Jalad... at Tanagra.”

[Red Badger]

Did he vote in November?.................

[Little Pig]

This seems to happen often enough that museums and other repositories really ought to have someone tasked to sort through their dead-storage (heh) areas now and then to see what might have been mislaid or “lost”.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"Anyone know what all this is?"

"Just a bunch of old stuff. Gotta keep it somewhere."

[eartrumpet]

In the 60s my dad loaned a Confederate and a Union rifle plus a battle flag to the local college museum. When we moved in the 70s, they were unable to locate them to give back to him.

[P.O.E.]

PA Ping!

If you see posts of interest to Pennsylvanians, please ping me.

Thanks!

Always thought Gilgamesh would make a great movie.

[Cold Heart]

The small museum where I was once a board member has a policy of not taking anything on loan. I guess that is the reason.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

"Just a bunch of old stuff. Gotta keep it somewhere."

Like in a locked box, under the stairs?

[GunRunner]

Yeah right. How can a skeleton be 500 years older than the Earth?

[GunRunner]

His nickname on the Creepshow set was Fluffy.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Apparently some old crates do have their uses.

[Hulka]

“For 85 years, the skeleton has been lying in a wooden box in the Penn Museum’s labyrinthine basement; any associated documentation that may have once been attached to the skeleton or storage box has long been missing.”

Hmmm. . .no documentation. . .hmmmm. . .Jimmy Hoffa’s body discovered, perhaps?

[aomagrat]

any associated documentation that may have once been attached to the skeleton or storage box has long been missing.

Just another undocumented alien.