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...efforts, students at Harvard have a chance to see artifacts similar to what was lost at the museum. The second floor of the Semitic Museum on Divinity Ave. displays tablets and jewelry from the ancient city of Nuzi. Excavated in a series of Harvard-sponsored expeditions in the late 1920s, the artifacts (which include a set of civil lawsuits inscribed in cuneiform) record the culture of the Nuzi civilization, which fell to its Assyrian and Babylonian neighbors in the thirteenth century B.C.E...
...nasty rumor was circulating in the lobby held that Turkey was demanding the honoring of a 1920s treaty with Britain, which guaranteed it a share of Iraq's northern oilfields. This elicited a look of plain horror from the Turkish official...
Cast for the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries, the bells were bought by industrialist Charles Crane in the 1920s after the Russian government threatened to melt them down, and were given to University President A. Lawrence Lowell as a gift...
...have been a base for the training of museum professionals since the 1920s,” Cohn says. “The papers in our possession reflect the growth in art museums around the country and around the world...
Frederick C. Packard Jr. ’20, a former assistant professor of public speaking, pushed Harvard to begin serious audio recording in the early part of the century, developing the Harvard Vocarium as a tool to produce quality speech recordings. By the 1920s, phonographic technology was growing to meet the demand for improved sound. The Vocarium launched as a record label...