"Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetary" Exhibition at Penn Museum
Curated by Richard L. Zettler and Holly Pittman

In 1922 the Penn Museum and the British Museum embarked upon a joint expedition to the ancient site of Ur in southern Iraq. Led by British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, this expedition astonished the world by uncovering an extraordinary 4,500-year-old royal cemetery with more than 2,000 burials that detailed a remarkable ancient Mesopotamian civilization at the height of its glory.

Sunday, October 25, 2009, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology opens a new long-term exhibition, Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery, bringing many of the details of that famous expedition vividly to life through field notes, photographs and archival documents—and more than 220 extraordinary ancient artifacts unearthed at the excavation. more >