The world's oldest museum

THE WORLD'S OLDEST MUSEUM, founded by the daughter of the Neo-Babylonian King Nabonidus in the city of Ur and excavated by Leonard Woolley in the 1920s, is profiled in io9. No particular connection to ancient Judaism, but too cool not to link to.

What were we to think? Here were half a dozen diverse objects found lying on an unbroken brick pavement of the sixth century BC, yet the newest of them was seven hundred years older than the pavement and the earliest perhaps sixteen hundred.

(HT Christopher Rollston.)