Harvard students from Ancient Near East 103 “Ancient Lives” will exhibit casts of stone reliefs from two Assyrian palaces dated to the early first millennium BCE. Working with the Harvard Semitic Museum over the last year, they have created the durable resin casts from the museum’s plaster casts of the original reliefs, most of which are from Nimrud’s Northwest palace of Assurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE) in what is today Iraq...
Experience a culinary journey to ancient Mesopotamia. This special event will present a curated selection of foods and beverages based on the earliest recorded recipes from the Ancient Near East. For a multi-sensory experience, attend the special event on...
Northwest Building, Lecture Hall B103, 52 Oxford Street
Special Event with Richard Dumbrill, Director of ICONEA (International Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology) at the Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, and Professor of Archaeomusicology, University of Babylon, and Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper, The...
Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue and Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
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Activities take place among the world-famous collections of North American, Maya, and Ancient Near Eastern archaeology held by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Semitic...
This exhibition celebrates the vision of the Harvard Semitic Museum’s founder, David Gordon Lyon (1852–1935). Professor Lyon assembled a rich collection of antiquities from the Semitic cultures of the ancient Near East, including the Holy Land, and created the museum to inspire visitors to discover and explore Semitic contributions to world civilization. The exhibition tells the intriguing story of the museum’s nineteenth-century beginning and features Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, ancient...
Lecture held in the Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue. Reception follows in the Harvard Semitic Museum.
Lecture and Exhibition Opening with Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, Joseph A. Greene, Deputy Director and Curator, Harvard Semitic Museum, and Adam Aja, Assistant Curator of Collections, Harvard Semitic Museum
Harvard professor David Gordon Lyon (1852-1935) held one of the first Assyriology positions in the United States and worked tirelessly to promote the study of ancient cultures that once flourished in today's Middle East. Join Peter Der Manuelian, Joseph Greene...