June 2014

Monthly Archive: June 2014

The Monastery of St Moses, Syria: The Pottery

Posted: June 29, 2014 - 09:38 , by Robert Mason
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Art & Culture, Research
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Pottery with an earthenware fired-clay body, overall white slip, incision through the slip with a broad tool, overall lead glaze, splashed with copper-green, probably mid-14th century.

ROM Field Guide to Butterflies of Ontario

Posted: June 23, 2014 - 11:29 , by ROM
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Learning, Photography
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Black Swallowtail - Papilio polyxenes

This is the very first field guide on the butterflies of Ontario. It highlights the diversity of life by featuring a staggering 167 species of butterflies known to occur in Ontario. The ROM Field Guide to Butterflies of Ontario includes descriptive species accounts, flight season phenograms, and striking field photography of adults and caterpillars.

The Monastery of St Moses, Syria: Introduction

Posted: June 17, 2014 - 15:32 , by Robert Mason
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Research, Art & Culture
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View of the old monastery buildings from the South in 2004, with then Brother Jihad, a member of the monastery.

Robert Mason reports on his years of archaeological fieldwork at the Monastery of St Moses, Syria, in this blog series. 

 

 

Sloth Life

Posted: June 12, 2014 - 15:14 , by royal
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Biodiversity, Natural History, Exhibitions & Galleries
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Upside-down Two-toed sloth

What you may or may not know about this unusual mammal.

A Fish With a Big Bang

Posted: June 11, 2014 - 13:00 , by ROM
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Research, Natural History
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Illustration of Metaspriggina

New fossils reveal first hints of the evolution of jaws in primitive fish.