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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of the Maya king who founded the city of Caracol in what is now Belize.

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 ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...