The University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum announced Tuesday that it had rediscovered a 6,500-year-old human skeleton originally excavated from southern Iraq around 1930.
The complete remains, which had been kept in a coffin-like box, were missing documentation until researchers recently began digitizing the museum's collection from an expedition to Ur, an ancient city near modern-day Nasiriyah.
This is a little embarrassing as this is the place where I was taught archaeology and they were scrupulous about instilling in us the need for precise record-keeping. I guess an "Oops" is in order.