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PHILADELPHIA, Feb 4 (Reuters Life!) - A exhibition about the ancient Silk Road trade route connecting Europe and Asia will open without artifacts and mummies from China that would have been the centerpiece of the show, according to museum officials.The University of ...
Timbuctoo was founded by freed blacks and escaped slaveswith the support of local Quakers in the 1820?s. Such artifacts as the clasp of a handbag, Mason jars and aDixie Peach Pomade jar were among the bricks that broke away from thefoundation, according ...
A pointing trowel is a bricklayer 's tool used for filling and shaping the mortar in between bricks, a process known as pointing. Although a pointing trowel is similar in shape to the larger bricklayer's trowel used to spread mortar and cut ...
Inert torpedo found at Philadelphia construction site near long-gone shipyardA police bomb squad had to be called to a Philadelphia construction site after someone found an old, inert torpedo.PennDOT spokesman Charles Metzger says a transportation department archaeological team found two men sitting ...
Exhibit on quest for Egypt's last pharaoh, Cleopatra, makes world debut in PhiladelphiaAn exhibit making its world premiere in Philadelphia features many never-before-seen artifacts from a pair of ongoing Egyptian archaeological expeditions."Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt" opens Saturday ...
As one of the archaeologists who unearthed George Washington's boyhood home at Ferry Farm this year puts it, the nation's first president " Mount Vernon This estate on the banks of the Potomac River was once owned by George Washington's half-brother, Lawrence ...
Ralph Linton, (b. Dec. 24, 1953, New Haven, Conn.), American anthropologist who had a marked influence on the development of cultural anthropology.. As an undergraduate at Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, Linton pursued archaeological interests, taking part in expeditions to New Mexico, Colorado, and ...
As one of the archaeologists who unearthed George Washington's boyhood home at Ferry Farm this year puts it, the nation's first president " Mount Vernon This estate on the banks of the Potomac River was once owned by George Washington's half-brother, Lawrence ...
Archaeologists Find Slave Passageway at George Washington House; Ruins Could Alter ExhibitArchaeologists unearthing the remains of George Washington's presidential home have discovered a hidden passageway used by his nine slaves, raising questions about whether the ruins should be incorporated into a new ...
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Philadelphia (1993) - Movie Trailer
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