Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East YouTube Channel

[First posted in AWOL 23 Octob er 2018, updated 11 September 2023]

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East YouTube Channel

The Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (formerly the Harvard Semitic Museum) houses over 40,000 Near Eastern artifacts, most of which derive from museum-sponsored excavations in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Tunisia.

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