The Harvard Semitic Museum has changed its name to the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, the museum announced earlier this month. The name change was intended to make the focus of the ...

The director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East replies to Ruth Wisse. ... The effort was originally the brainchild of Harvard Assyriologist David Gordon Lyon, not donor Jacob Schiff.

Yet it’s hard to see how renaming the institution the “Museum of the Ancient Near East” reflects its mission more accurately than the adjective “Semitic” did.

Harvard Semitic Museum is ranked #10 out of ... 40,000 Near Eastern artifacts, mostly from museum-sponsored ... worth a visit" if you're interested in ancient civilizations of the Near East.

What do 20th-century Israeli literature, medieval Arabic poetry from Andalusia, Farsi and the archaeology of ancient Jerusalem have to do ...

"By housing ancient Near Eastern exhibitions, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East explores the rich history of cultures connected by the family of Semitic languages...Founded in 1889, the ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...