NELC course Ancient Near East 103 in Harvard Gazette: watch video

Ancient Near East 103: Ancient Lives

Students in ANE 103, through music and taste connected with the ancients.
Barjamovic, a lecturer on Assyriology and instructor for Ancient Lives noted that the class demonstration with the musical instrument replicas sent a clear message that “music is one of the baselines of human existence. There isn’t a culture on this planet that doesn’t have music, and here we have the chance to hear a piece of it over a distance of 3,500 years.”

“It shows us,” Barjamovic added, “that what brings us together as essentially human can sometimes bridge even the chasm of time that separates us.”

connect: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/lasting-enchantments/