Egypt
Monthly Archive: December Egyp
Clay sealings from Edfu, Egypt in the Greek & Roman collection
![Ptolemaic seal impressions in the Greek & Roman collection Ptolemaic seal impressions in collection storage drawers](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/edfu22045_0.jpg?itok=e_F6brTe)
Over a century after they were acquired Ptolemaic artifacts at the Royal Ontario Museum, Greek & Roman collection, get new homes
Introducing Nefret-Mut
![Gayle Gibson with Nefret-Mut's coffin Gayle Gibson with Nefret-Mut's coffin](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/gayle-gibson_0.jpg?itok=jZkGYR16)
ROM Educator and Egyptologist Gayle Gibson explains how she was able to name this mummy after so many years in the collection
Restoring a Rebel Pharaoh’s Kingdom: In the field with Prof. Barry Kemp
![Kemp at work -- with the small temple of Aten way in the distance. © Laura Ranieri Man at work at an archaeological site with desert in background.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/barry_kemp_egypt_sm21.jpg?itok=2xzzo99Z)
Laura Ranieri's experience working with Prof. Barry Kemp CBE of Cambridge University and a small archaeology team as they excavated and partially reconstructed Akhenaten's Great Temple of Aten in Egypt.
Interview: Egyptologist Barry Kemp
![Professor Barry Kemp, Egyptologist Dr. Kemp at an archaeology site in the desert](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/barry_kemp_egypt_sm16.jpg?itok=koXnoYr5)
Professor Barry Kemp CBE is an esteemed British Egyptologist who has been excavating at Amarna for 35 years. His critically acclaimed book, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, was released in 2012 and is available online and in bookstores. He spoke at the ROM on September 19, 2013. I was lucky enough to spend two weeks at the site of Amarna in February of 2013. During that time, I had the opportunity to interview Prof. Kemp. The following is an edited version of that conversation. All photos copyright Laura Ranieri, 2013.
Amarna Artifacts in the ROM’s Ancient Egypt Collection
![Amarna Artifacts in the ROM’s Ancient Egypt Collection Gallery shot of Eye of the Beholder with collar and relief sculpture in foreground under spotlight, W. Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/rom2007_9291_21.jpg?itok=-40k9PzM)
A look at the ROM's massive collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, specifically those from the Armana collection.
Mummies, mummies, mummies!
![Mummy Djedmaatesankh featured at ROM Ancient Egypt Weekend 2013 Detail of mummy Djedmaatesankh in ROM's collection](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/djedmaatesankh_thmb.jpg?itok=UKYtkwEL)
Even if you missed Ancient Egypt Weekend 2013, you can continue the fun at home or on a future visit to the ROM.
Caring for the ROM's Collections
![ROM staff, volunteers, and interns work behind the scenes to care for our collections Woman photographing a clay pot, with a cart holding additional pots in the foreground](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/sarah_thumbnail.jpg?itok=olgfLJL6)
Year round, ROM staff, interns, and volunteers care for our collections behind the scenes.
Dr. Zahi Hawass Lecture at the ROM
![Dr. Zahi Hawass Image of Zahi Hawass](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/hawass.png?itok=elMXTPJI)
Last Monday the ROM hosted a sold-out lecture by Dr. Zahi Hawass in our Currelly gallery...