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A digitization project led a museum to discover a 6,500-year-old skeleton in its own basement
Scientists at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia found "Noah," as the skeleton has been dubbed, languishing in an old wooden box after they digitized the records of a 1929 Iraqi dig
British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley first uncovered the body in southern Iraq during the 1929-30 season of a joint Penn Museum/British Museum excavation. It was buried with 48 other bodies, 60 feet underground, in a layer of fine silt deposited by a flood
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