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.

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.

Though some Harvard museums, such as the Harvard Art Museums, are already free, Tufts community members now have access to four other museums: the Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is planning a $40 million initiative to renovate its Ancient Near East and Cypriot galleries, museum officials announced on Tuesday.

Tindal will be responsible for leading the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Harvard Collection of ...

After an extended shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture and its programs reopened to both Harvard affiliates and the general public last week.

In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.

An essay about Sirens and objects they can adorn in the ancient Greek and Near Eastern worlds.

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 ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it will embark on a “complete renovation ” of its galleries dedicated to Ancient Near Eastern and Cypriot Art with Boston-based ...

At the opening of a new art exhibit on the faces of ancient Palmyra at the Museo archeologico nazionale di Cividale del Friuli in the northern Italian city of Friuli, prominent Near Eastern ...