When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. “Legend has it,” she said, “John James Audubon really collected the skulls Morton claimed as his own.” Her voice was lowered so as not to disturb the other scholars in the hushed archive. A lecture he …
After watching eight seasons of the epic saga “Game of Thrones,” fans can now enter what may be a competition on par with the battle for the Iron Throne: an auction of prized memorabilia from the HBO series. Jay Roewe, HBO’s senior vice president of global incentives and production planning, said the auction — a chance for fans to “grab …
Penn Museum Apologizes For 'Unethical Possession Of Human Remains' Enlarge this image toggle caption R. Perez/Penn Museum R. Perez/Penn Museum Dozens of human skulls of Black people — some hundreds of years old — will be returned to their communities of origin for reburial, according to a commitment by the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. "The Penn …
