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unusual facts about University of Pennsylvania Museum



Cahal Pech

The name Cahal Pech, meaning "Place of the Ticks", was given when this site was fallow during the first archaeological studies in the 1950s, led by Linton Satterthwaite from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

Howard C. Petersen

Petersen was chairman of the boards of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and the Marshall Foundation, and chairman and advisory committee member of Export-Import Bank.

William Kelly Simpson

He is one of several co-directors of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Yale University Expedition to Abydos, Egypt, which conducts archaeological excavations of ancient sites.


see also

Patrick McGovern

Patrick Edward McGovern (born 1944), Biomolecular Archaeologist, University of Pennsylvania Museum