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“housing ancient Near Eastern exhibitions”
By housing ancient Near Eastern exhibitions, Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East explores the rich history of cultures connected by the family of Semitic languages. Exhibitions include a full-scale replica of an ancient Israelite home, life sized casts of famous Mesopotamian monuments, authentic mummy coffins, and tablets containing the earliest forms of writing. Like the artifacts it displays, the museum itself has a rich and nuanced history.
Free museum next to the Peabody that gets a fraction of the traffic. A fascinating reminder that laws and literature are 5,000 years old and not invented in the modern era. Less crowded than many... Read more
Small but free museum that is just beautiful inside. I really liked the ancient Mediterranean marketplace staged on the first floor. Read more
Solid museum! We were at the natural history museum and the map showed us this one as well, so we walked over. They have exhibits on Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia including tombs of mummies,... Read more
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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
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