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TIL The oldest known museum was built sometime around 530 B.C, by a Neo-Babylonian princess named Ennigaldi-Nanna. Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum displayed artifacts from earlier eras of Mesopotamian history, going back as far as the 20th century B.C.

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