Yale celebrates centennial of Babylonian Collection
Everybody’s working for the weekend — or at least Yale’s Assyrilogists.
The Yale Babylonian Collection celebrated its centennial Saturday at a conference attended by 60 members of the local community, with events including tours of the collection’s highlights and a Saybrook College Orchestra concert of Mesopotamian-influenced classical music.
Founded by Yale professor Albert Tobias Clay in 1909, the collection was established with a donation from financier J.P. Morgan, who later entrusted the University with his own library of Babylonian artifacts.
Today, the collection —...
I wish I would have heard of this earlier. I would have loved to have attendEd.