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(Philly Voice)   What would you find in a 5000 year old tavern's fridge? You can find out on May 3rd at Penn Museum   (phillyvoice.com) divider line
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Lambskincoat [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 12:20:28 PM  
Heating and ac technology goes back much further than I was led to believe.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 12:27:20 PM  
An Irishman that went out for beer.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 12:30:52 PM  
I'm glad that they have these people who go around the world digging in the dirt to find this stuff out.

It's really pretty cool.
 
Nah'mean [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 12:40:46 PM  
The Penn Museum is actually a really cool place to visit. Any Farker who visits Philly should check it out.
 
phalamir [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 12:45:36 PM  

Lambskincoat: Heating and ac technology goes back much further than I was led to believe.


It wouldn't have been a fridge like you have in your kitchen.  It would have been more like a beer chest with aspirations of adequacy.  You can cool down water by dissolving saltpeter in it.  Do it right, and you can even create ice - I know the Mughals were creating ice for the emperors like this in the 1500-1600s CE.  It's hilariously inefficient by modern standards of cooling, but if you are only interested in achieving something along the lines of the cool-but-not-frozen units in a grocery store, it was doable.  For a tavern that was probably just trying to keep food from spoiling for a few extra days, it would serve.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 12:49:38 PM  
They have an amazing collection at that museum.  Worth a visit, if you've never been.

This is a several thousand year old land title transfer:
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psychosis_inducing
2023-02-08 1:23:28 PM  
It's an amazing museum. My college had a free-admission agreement with them, and I went all the time. My favorite was the Roman glassware, and the ancient floor mosaic that they had installed.... Right in the floor to walk on.
 
ColleenSezWhuut
2023-02-08 1:39:29 PM  
My money is on expired condiments just like modern folk.
 
All Intensive Purposes [BareFark]
2023-02-08 1:56:47 PM  
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Joey Jo Jo Jr Shabadu
2023-02-08 1:58:52 PM  

Nah'mean: The Penn Museum is actually a really cool place to visit. Any Farker who visits Philly should check it out.


I've only been once, many years ago.  I was dating a girl who was going to Villanova, and she said she had to visit the art museum for a class project.  So I told her I'd go with her since she didn't really like navigating the city.  We spent a good hour at the Philadelphia Museum of Art before I finally asked to see the paper for her assignment, which of course stated the exhibit was at the Penn Museum.  Both are cool museums though.
 
deadsanta
2023-02-08 2:18:36 PM  
My friends worked reception at that museum, I got many after hours and behind the scenes looks at the collection and preparation areas and it is an amazing place.  Should be as well known as Field Museum or various other natural history museums but sadly isn't.
 
Nah'mean [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 2:25:46 PM  

deadsanta: My friends worked reception at that museum, I got many after hours and behind the scenes looks at the collection and preparation areas and it is an amazing place.  Should be as well known as Field Museum or various other natural history museums but sadly isn't.


My son and I did "40 Winks with the Sphinx" many years ago. Walking the galleries late at night was a blast. There was a time when I thought it was a shame that the museum was not more well known, but maybe it's better that way.
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 5:14:51 PM  
The Teller Museum next door is also pretty good
 
Barricaded Gunman
2023-02-08 6:36:51 PM  

leeksfromchichis: The Teller Museum next door is also pretty good


It was pretty quiet when I went.
 
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