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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Cambridge, MA

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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

See mummy coffins, Mesopotamian monuments and early clay tablets in a free Harvard museum near the Yard.

6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 · Cambridge, MA

About Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

Founded in 1889 as the Harvard Semitic Museum, this museum has filled its building at 6 Divinity Avenue since 1903 and took its current name in 2020. The galleries cover the cultures of the ancient Near East, with a full-scale replica of an Iron Age house, Mesopotamian monuments, real mummy coffins and tablets holding some of the earliest writing. Admission is free. Note that it is closed on Saturdays.

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