The macabre collection, currently in storage, was accumulated by Samuel George Morton in the first half of the 19th century. University of Pennsylvania Youtube A museum in Philadelphia has apologized ...

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The Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) announced that it will remove from view parts of its Morton Cranial Collection, which includes skulls of ...

Activists in Philadelphia are renewing their calls for the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania to repatriate crania in its disputed Morton Collection. The ...

The 6,000 animal skulls collected by late scientist Ray "Bones" Bandar will soon be a resource for scientists around the world. Bandar, who passed away on Dec. 23, 2017 at the age of 90, gifted his ...

Participants listen to presenter Meredith Sellers during a workshop presented by the Mutter Museum Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at the Whitehall Township Library. Participants worked off of four images ...

German invaders pillaged thousands of skulls from East African colonies and brought them back. Using DNA analysis, a museum has managed to find relat of three of the skulls. This finding is a "small ...