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For the perfect mix of history and outdoor adventure, this small Pennsylvania town has it all, including vintage railroad ...
Learn about the inspiring mission of the Black Creatives of Pitt County group in Greenville, learn about laser cut maps at Blue Rose Printing in Blounts Creek, and find out how you can save on amazing ...
Welcome to PNC Park, the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Tucked into the banks of the Allegheny River, the beauty of the ...
Alamy Ms Papakura and her family donated artefacts to the Pitt Rivers Museum both during her lifetime and after her death Ms Papakura was born Margaret Pattison Thom at Matatā in the Bay of ...
Professor Dan Hicks, curator of world archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum, was commissioned by Worcester College in 2019 to investigate the history of the skull cup. He described the object as ...
The chalice was purchased – for five pounds and five shillings – by the Victorian soldier and archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers, who founded the Oxford museum bearing his name in 1884.
Professor Hicks, the curator of world archaeology at the university's Pitt Rivers Museum, wrote about the discovery in a new book which explores the violent colonial history of looted human remains.
The chalice was purchased – for five pounds and five shillings – by the Victorian soldier and archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers, who founded the Oxford museum bearing his name in 1884. The Sotheby’s ...
The Great River Children's Museum is getting ready to open its doors. Membership sales are expected to kick off on April 1, as the museum plans to open "in late spring." Membership is $150 for two ...
In 2020, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford removed its Egyptian mummies from display, along with its collection of shrunken heads of the Shuar from the rainforests of Peru and Ecuador. 'I found ...
A treasure trove of blowpipes, magical charms, feather cloaks, story robes, mermaid dishes and libation sticks, the Pitt Rivers Museum is a dimly ... you can download a map for a self-guided ...
When drivers emerge from the Fort Pitt ... River. The sole exception: Southpointe, a 589-acre suburban office park in Washington County whose development put Piatt on the map.