Philadelphia Museum to display 6,500-year-old human skeleton

[jeff of pa]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The public will soon get to see an ancient human skeleton recently rediscovered in a Philadelphia museum's storage room.
Visitors can look at the 6,500-year-old remains beginning Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum.
Archaeologists first excavated the specimen from southern Iraq around 1930. But it sat for decades in the museum's basement without any documentation.
Museum officials confirmed its origins this summer while digitizing their collection.

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[Sheldon J]

So real quick how long before someone who has absolutely nothing to do with the Native American Indian steps forward all offended that these bones of their ancestors should be interred and not displayed....

 

[redbeardrelics]

I doubt any Native American Indians will be offended with this skeleton, since it was recovered in southern Iraq. I also doubt that any Islamists will be offended since they are systematically creating new skeletons every day in northern Iraq, and anywhere else they can get away with it.

 

[Guest 1551]

Classic US archaeology. They have a forgotten skeleton just lying around in the basement. We try to please the Indians with all their feunary rights yet other guys just get screwed. Classic.

 

[jeff of pa]

Classic US archaeology. They have a forgotten skeleton just lying around in the basement. We try to please the Indians with all their feunary rights yet other guys just get screwed. Classic.

They know where the Smoochin' needs to be done
to keep those $$$ Rolling in