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Penn archaeologist helps with Iron Maiden tour logo

The tail fin of Iron Maiden's 747 depicts song titles translated into Mayan hieroglyphs by the University of Pennsylvania's Simon Martin.
The tail fin of Iron Maiden's 747 depicts song titles translated into Mayan hieroglyphs by the University of Pennsylvania's Simon Martin.Read moreJOHN McMURTRIE
    by Tom Avril, STAFF WRITER
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When the heavy-metal group Iron Maiden comes to Philadelphia in June, a local researcher can take credit for some of the attendant pageantry.

At the band's request, the University of Pennsylvania's Simon Martin translated 11 of the group's head-banging song titles into ancient Mayan hieroglyphs.

Read more about the scholar's off-beat assignment here.