Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World Exhibition

Tue Nov 30, 2021 - Sun May 15, 2022
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Repeating every week — Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays through May 15, 2022
Except December 24, 2021.
Various times
Age: 10+ years old
Price: Free
Location:
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138
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Mediterranean Marketplaces explores how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around the ancient Mediterranean transformed the lives and livelihoods of people at all levels of society, driving innovations that had lasting impacts—even on the modern world.

Much like today, ancient “consumers” were connected to distant markets. Both basic and precious goods from faraway lands “shipped” to royal palaces, elite estates—sometimes even rural households—and technological advances in craftsmanship and commerce transcended boundaries of language, religion, or culture to spread rapidly.

Advance registration is required.

Exhibit hours are 11am-4pm daily, except Saturdays.

Image credit: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 1902.16.3 © President and Fellows of Harvard College

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