University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Among the finds were 35 ceramic vessels and stone slabs engraved with hieroglyphics.

Years later, on one of their first dates, Arlen and Diane saw a collection of these relics at the university's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, better known as the Penn Museum.

The university's link with ancient Maya culture set their own careers in motion.

As they went on to teach at a number of institutions, Caracol remained their enduring passion.

Leonard Woolley's work at Ur is the famous case.

Woolley directed the joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum from 1922 into the 1930s, with an enormous Iraqi workforce and specialists including Max Malawan, later himself one of the great Near Eastern archaeologists.

In the late 1920s, Woolley ordered deep pits to be sunk below the levels of ordinary occupation because he wanted to know what lay beneath the earliest known city.

the workmen passed through rubbish broken pottery ash and the remains of habitation and then suddenly the human material stopped beneath it was clean water-laid sediment woolley initially thought they had reached natural ground but the depth bothered him so he ordered them to keep going The digging continued through roughly eight feet of clean material in one sounding before pottery and occupation debris appeared again underneath it.

His daughter, Lucy, born to Myrta Belknap in Englewood in the summer of 1889, became a public school teacher and died in the same year as her half-brother, a little under two months after he did.

In 2017, when rumors that Holmes had somehow escaped his execution gained mainstream attention, his body was exhumed from the cemetery at Yeadon under the direction of Janet Mongey, or Mong, of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

The concrete he had demanded had done its work.

The body had not decomposed in the ordinary way.

The best-known alien version comes from Erich von Däniken's 1968 book Erinnerungen und die Zukunft, published in English as Chariots of the Gods.

Stephen Epstein, writing in the Penn Museum's Expedition magazine in 1987, summed up his case in one line, he claimed that human history had been shaped by visitors from outer space.

At its strongest, the case rests on scale and on real gaps in the record.

Eris Glenn Dash writes that the builders of the Great Pyramid of Khufu align the huge monument to true north to within six minutes of arc, or one-tenth of a degree.

One is the underpinning and then the other one is more, I mean, we'll call it like an esoteric and an exoteric, right? What we get to have, but there's sort of like three different strata.

And if you go to the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, You can find the Star of David all over the building.

And the museum first opened in 1899.

And that was the point that the university's expeditions were first happening over in Mesopotamia and particularly at Nippur.

The story of Griselda, which is told in this poem, was first told in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron in 1353.

A collection of Latin fragments has been at the Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania since the museum acquired them from an antiquities dealer in Egypt in 1911.

Some of the largest pieces have been reassembled and translated, and it appears to be a page from a sort of pocket guide to Roman Empire laws that might have been used by tax officials or by landowners and their attorneys.

The page is made from animal skin, and red ink on one side of the page suggests that someone marked something that was particularly important.

Inside were carved reliefs of six war horses, the Zhaoling Liujun, which commemorated his great military victories.

Two of these six reliefs are on display at the Penn Museum.

Wait, what? How did they end up there? Well, right after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, a period of decades of chaos followed.

Cultural relics flowed out of China in amounts never seen before.