KYW 1060 did a quickie yesterday about the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropolgy’s decision to lay off 18 researchers even as it spends money to upgrade exhibition space and attract new customers.
Samuel Taylor of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History wonders whether Penn’s decision might be a little shortsighted:
“The reason that this [...]

So what is under the streets? When I visited Israel in 2007, I was struck by how much of that country is built on top of monuments, houses, fortresses, and places of worship that are thousands of years old. The entire country is basically one giant historical dig. It made me consider [...]

Philadelphia is home to some of America’s illustrious history. One Philadelphia historian gives a talk this evening at the Wagner Free Institute of Science on one little corner of the city’s history - its lost cemeteries. WHYY’s Arts and Culture Reporter Alex Schmidt talked to historian Thomas Keels about these hidden pieces of [...]