Babylon revisited
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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8:27am April 17 2019
A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum showcases Yale’s remarkable Babylonian Collection, which includes some of the oldest examples of written language in the world. (Shown here is a cast of a 3,700-year-old stele containing the code of Hammurabi.) The exhibit runs through June 30.
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