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From: Pam Kosty <[email protected]>
Date: February 15, 2011 7:54:28 AM EST
To: Linda Lee <[email protected]>
Subject: Secrets of the Silk Road...now with mummies, artifacts at
Penn Museum
Penn Museum Announces: "Secrets of the Silk Road Exhibition" to Open
with Mummies and Artifacts from China!
"Secrets of the Silk Road," the landmark exhibition from China,
makes its exclusive East Coast appearance at the Penn Museum, 3260
South Street in Philadelphia—for a limited time only. The
exhibition features the famous 3,800 year old “Beauty of Xiaohe,”
excavated in 2003, an infant mummy, and more than 100 recently
discovered objects from the vast Tarim Basin desert of Central Asia.
Extraordinarily preserved clothing and textiles, food, gold jewelry
and coins, figurines, burial goods and personal items from ages past
help to tell a tale of long-forgotten cultures along the world’s
most legendary trading route. The exhibition runs from Friday,
February 18, 1 pm, through March 15. The full complement of
artifacts, minus the Beauty and one other mummy, continues March 17
through March 28—before the artifacts return to China.
Time is limited! To accommodate visitors, Penn Museum will be open
seven days a week, with extended evening hours, during the run of
this important exhibition. Timed tickets are on sale now: www.penn.museum/silkroad
, or (877) 77-CLICK. Special group rates are available:
(215)746-8183, or [email protected].
"Secrets of the Silk Road" was organized by the Bowers Museum, Santa
Ana, California, in association with the Archaeological Institute of
Xinjiang and the Urumqi Museum.
Pam Kosty
Public Information
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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