"THE HOUSES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL," an exhibit at the Harvard Semitic Museum, is in the news:

Harvard museum exhibit shows "The Houses of Ancient Israel"
By Nancy Rabinowitz
Thursday, February 9, 2006 (Daily News Transcript)

CAMBRIDGE -- The hands of time have been turned back to biblical days at Harvard University’s Semitic Museum, where curators have put together a replica of a house showing what life was like in ancient Israel.
"Even if you know nothing about ancient Israel, nothing about archaeology, nothing about the Bible, you walk in and you say ’oh, yeah, that’s a house,"’ said Joseph A. Greene, the museum’s assistant director.
"What’s different is how people live their lives -- what they eat, how they dress, where they sleep, what they do in the house," Greene said.


The exhibit, "The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine," focuses on everyday life around the year 700 B.C.

The exhibit has been showing since November of 2003.