From the Nile to the Euphrates: Creating the Harvard Semitic Museum

When:
Friday, Dec 05, 2014 10:00a -
Saturday, Dec 05, 2015 4:00p

Where:
Harvard Semitic Museum
6 Divinity Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art

Event website:
http://semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-exhibitions

Featuring a rich assortment of antiquities collected by museum founder David Gordon Lyon (1852-1935), a new exhibition opening December 5, 2014 allows visitors to explore the history of the ancient Near East at the Harvard Semitic Museum, founded 125 years ago in 1889. See Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, ancient Palestinian pottery, Egyptian funerary art, and ethnographic treasures, along with Lyon’s own travel and excavation photographs. One of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, the Harvard Semitic Museum is free and open to the public. For more, see www.hmsc.harvard.edu

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