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TIL that the first known museum dates to circa 530 BC in the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and was an exhibit of artefacts from earlier Mesopotamian kingdoms. Its curator was Ennigaldi, the daughter of King Nabonidus (who has been called 'the first archeologist'.)

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