Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald ...

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

For years, a man's giant intestine was anonymously on display at a US medical museum in Philadelphia, identified only by his initials JW. Today, the donor display for Joseph Williams depicts not only ...

Studying medieval skeletons is a direct way to obtain information about life in medieval societies with very little other information available about the living conditions of ordinary people. In this ...

Skulls from the Josef Hyrtl Collection at the Mutter Museum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Copyright AFP Hector RETAMAL Skulls from the Josef Hyrtl Collection at ...