Philadelphia - Penn Museum, Philadelphia, United States turned out to have a hidden collection. A 6,500-year-old human skeleton - which is not known to exist for 85 years in the basement.
Tucked away in a warehouse, wooden box containing the skeleton does not have an identification number, also do not have a card catalog. However, recent efforts to mendijitalisasi some ancient records museums to uncover information about the history of the mysterious coffin and skeleton in it - later dubbed 'Noah'.
Human skeleton in a wooden box that was originally excavated between 1929 and 1930 on the site of Ur - at the location now known as Iraq - by Sir Leonard Woolley and his team of archaeologists from Penn and British Museums. Similarly, according to the records.
Excavations conducted Woolley renowned for uncovering 'royal tombs' Mesopotamia famous - including hundreds of graves and tombs along with 16 rooms of cultural artifacts.
Not only that, the archaeologists also uncover the tombs of 2,000 years older than the graves of the blue blood in Ur. At the same location.
In the flood plain, which is 15 meters below the surface of the site of Ur, a team of experts found 48 tombs dating from the Ubaid period, around 5,500 BC to 4,000 BC.
Although the framework of that period are rare, even in 1929, Woolley decided to only take one course framework from the site. He wrapped the bones and surrounding land uses wax, then put it in the crate, and then shipped to London, then to Philadelphia.
A set list to uncover any artifacts from 1929 to 1930 it was sent: half of it is still there in Iraq, the other half divided between London and Philadelphia. One of the list call the Penn Museum receives the results of the excavation mud tray, also 2 framework.
However, when William Hafford, menajer responsible project data mendijitalisasi museum to see the list, he was shocked at. Therefore, one of the two existing skeleton was found in the record of its existence.
Further research revealed that the unidentified skeleton has been recorded as "not counted" in 1990 was not a satisfactory answer Hafford. To unravel the mystery, he began to explore the records left by Woolley himself.
After receiving additional information, including a picture frame missing, Hafford approached Janet Monge, curator of physical anthropology Penn Museum - which turned out to not have never seen such a framework.
However, Monge remember the existence of a mysterious wooden box in the basement. When he opened the box a few days later, he discovered that the skeleton is in it is the same registered, packed and shipped by Woolley.
The framework, said Janet Monge, allegedly derived from the bodies of men 50 years or older, whose height 173-178 cm. Penn Museum researchers dub the framework of 'Noah' - because he believed that life after age based on archaeological data indicate major flooding occurred in the original location, Ur.
Archaeologists believe the disaster inspired epic flood stories revealed in the celestial religious scriptures written millennia later.
"It (the framework) are named based on the epic of Gilgamesh as a survivor of the great flood," said William Hafford like quotes from the science website LiveScience, Friday (08/08/2014). Although it was not clear who the true identity of the man.
However, scientific techniques, which are not in the Sir Leonard Woolley, helping scientists determine more about the period of time where the ancient skeleton is derived - including diet, the origin of heredity, trauma, stress, and illness suffered what .
Tucked away in a warehouse, wooden box containing the skeleton does not have an identification number, also do not have a card catalog. However, recent efforts to mendijitalisasi some ancient records museums to uncover information about the history of the mysterious coffin and skeleton in it - later dubbed 'Noah'.
Human skeleton in a wooden box that was originally excavated between 1929 and 1930 on the site of Ur - at the location now known as Iraq - by Sir Leonard Woolley and his team of archaeologists from Penn and British Museums. Similarly, according to the records.
Excavations conducted Woolley renowned for uncovering 'royal tombs' Mesopotamia famous - including hundreds of graves and tombs along with 16 rooms of cultural artifacts.
Not only that, the archaeologists also uncover the tombs of 2,000 years older than the graves of the blue blood in Ur. At the same location.
In the flood plain, which is 15 meters below the surface of the site of Ur, a team of experts found 48 tombs dating from the Ubaid period, around 5,500 BC to 4,000 BC.
Although the framework of that period are rare, even in 1929, Woolley decided to only take one course framework from the site. He wrapped the bones and surrounding land uses wax, then put it in the crate, and then shipped to London, then to Philadelphia.
A set list to uncover any artifacts from 1929 to 1930 it was sent: half of it is still there in Iraq, the other half divided between London and Philadelphia. One of the list call the Penn Museum receives the results of the excavation mud tray, also 2 framework.
However, when William Hafford, menajer responsible project data mendijitalisasi museum to see the list, he was shocked at. Therefore, one of the two existing skeleton was found in the record of its existence.
Further research revealed that the unidentified skeleton has been recorded as "not counted" in 1990 was not a satisfactory answer Hafford. To unravel the mystery, he began to explore the records left by Woolley himself.
After receiving additional information, including a picture frame missing, Hafford approached Janet Monge, curator of physical anthropology Penn Museum - which turned out to not have never seen such a framework.
However, Monge remember the existence of a mysterious wooden box in the basement. When he opened the box a few days later, he discovered that the skeleton is in it is the same registered, packed and shipped by Woolley.
The framework, said Janet Monge, allegedly derived from the bodies of men 50 years or older, whose height 173-178 cm. Penn Museum researchers dub the framework of 'Noah' - because he believed that life after age based on archaeological data indicate major flooding occurred in the original location, Ur.
Archaeologists believe the disaster inspired epic flood stories revealed in the celestial religious scriptures written millennia later.
"It (the framework) are named based on the epic of Gilgamesh as a survivor of the great flood," said William Hafford like quotes from the science website LiveScience, Friday (08/08/2014). Although it was not clear who the true identity of the man.
However, scientific techniques, which are not in the Sir Leonard Woolley, helping scientists determine more about the period of time where the ancient skeleton is derived - including diet, the origin of heredity, trauma, stress, and illness suffered what .
