Basem Gehad has been directing excavations at the Ancient Philadelphia Necropolis in the Egyptian Fayoum since 2016. His team has cleaned tombs that were looted in the late 19 th and early 20 th ...

Philadelphia's connection to the icy delight goes way back. Like just about all varieties of shaved ice desserts, the story begins in ancient Italy. Sicily in the 20th century B.C.E., to be exact.

Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a ...

Researchers from a museum in Pennsylvania were part of a recent major discovery. The researchers, along with Egyptian archaeologists, unearthed an ancient tomb of an as-of-yet unidentified pharaoh. A ...

A lesser-known period in Egyptian history has just been unearthed. Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive ...