2012 09 10
In 1966, curators at the archaeological museum of the University of Pennsylvania bought a pile of gorgeous Bronze Age jewelry from a Philadelphia dealer. They couldn't know their purchase would change how museums work. The 24 gold objects had come to Penn with no trace of where they'd been unearthed, or how. That left scholars there without much clue about why ...
In 1966, curators at the archaeological museum of the University of Pennsylvania bought a pile of gorgeous Bronze Age jewelry from a Philadelphia dealer. They couldn't know their purchase would change how museums work. The 24 gold objects had come to Penn with no trace of where they'd been unearthed, or how. That left scholars there without much clue about why ...
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