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

    12/30/2014 11:06:31 AM PST · by mbarker12474 · 25 replies
    Bible History Daily Website (Biblical Archaeology Society) ^ | 12 August 2014 | Robin Ngo of Bible History Daily
    Bible History Daily Website (Biblical Archaeology Society) Robin Ngo • 08/12/2014 A 6,500-year-old skeleton from the site of Ur in present-day Iraq was recently rediscovered in the basement of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The skeleton had originally been uncovered in 1929–30 during the joint British Museum/Penn Museum excavation at Ur led by Sir Leonard Woolley. 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. The remarkable rediscovery...