The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

In the region near Lake Victoria, archaeologists have uncovered ancient stone tools that could rewrite the history of early ...

The July 9 picket was the latest attempt by Penn Museum Workers United to secure increased pay rates following the June 30 ...

Penn Museum workers unionized in 2021 and had their last contract with the Ivy League school ratified in 2023. It expired at ...

Garden Jams will be hosted every Wednesday for the rest of July. The event offers food, drinks and late-night museum access.

Archaeologists in Portugal just identified the world's oldest mummies — thanks to a few undeveloped rolls of 60-year-old film ...

A question about 19th-century ceramics can only turn into an hour-long rabbit hole on the sacredness of motherhood as ...

Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

Jessica Munson, Ph.D., worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to analyze house size distributions with findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS ...

The Executive Committee of Penn’s Chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemned Penn’s “anti-union ...

The union group threatens action Wednesday if the university, the largest private employer in the city, doesn't agree to ...

Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long ...