World Culture
Monthly Archive: December Worl
Challenge your views at Rome & Greece Weekend
![Greek krater (wine-bowl) and hydria (water-jar) from the ROM storerooms and now on display. photos L.Britton A Greek krater (wine-bowl) and hydria (water-jar) from the ROM storerooms and now on display.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/katec_rg_weekend_2013_thumbnail_smaller.jpg?itok=7GToi2_E)
FInd out about two new displays that have been set up in the level 3 galleries for Ancient Rome and Greece Weekend (June 15th & 16th 2013).
Re-enactment, Archaeology, and the Ancient Rome & Greece Weekend III of IV: The Dagger
![A hypothetical reconstruction of a 3rd century knife and scabbard from Budapest of a type found at Dura-Europos - photo by Kay Sunahara.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/dagger_2013_5_0.jpg?itok=1uHnxZ0r)
So in my project to recreate the equipment of a 3rd century Roman soldier from Dura-Europos, following the creation of the sword, I next moved on to the dagger. Little seems to be known about the daggers used by soldiers in the Roman World of the 3rd century AD.
Daily Life in Greek & Roman: Insights from our Interns
![The ROM's Kay Sunahara examining Roman coins with interns Menghan Yan & Clare Schwartzberg, surrounded by artifacts being prepared for the upcoming Ancient Greece & Rome Weekend exhibit. <I>photo: R.Mason</I> The ROM's Kay Sunahara examining Roman coins with interns Menghan Yan & Clare Schwartzberg, surrounded by artifacts being prepared for the upcoming Ancient Greece & Rome Weekend exhibit](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/gr_2013_group_1_1.jpg?itok=vCMDaah2)
Student interns are a vital part of behind-the-scenes throughout the ROM...
Museums, stories and things.
![Image of visitors in the Birds Gallery Visitors in the Birds Gallery](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/birds169.jpg?itok=EX0PRzwP)
Get ready for an insider's look at the ROM from someone who's usually very far outside of it.
Re-enactment, Archaeology, and the Ancient Rome & Greece Weekend II of IV: The Sword
![The finished sword reproduction, with scabbard. The finished sword reproduction, with scabbard.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/sword1.jpg?itok=vuXLm4aM)
The sword is one of the definitive weapons of the Roman soldier...
Re-enactment, Archaeology, and the Ancient Rome & Greece Weekend: I of IV
![This painting by archaeologist Simon James shows how the Roman soldiers of Dura-Europos would have appeared, based on the finds from the site and the wall-painting in the Temple of the Palmyrene Gods.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/three_soldiers.jpg?itok=rwx8Zz0S)
As an archaeologist the main goal in my work is to understand the people of the past...
Faces to Remember: Chinese Portraits of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911)
![Portrait of the elderly Master Jing. By an anonymous painter. Hanging scroll in ink and colour on paper. Qing dynasty, ca. 1768. The George Crofts Collection. Gift of Mrs. H.D. Warren. 921.32.98 Portrait of the elderly Master Jing. By an anonymous painter. Hanging scroll in ink and colour on paper. Qing dynasty, ca. 1768. The George Crofts Collection. Gift of Mrs. H.D. Warren. 921.32.98](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/921.32.98_2.jpg?itok=7mJqlO8x)
Currently on display in the Herman Herzog Levy Gallery from May 18, 2013 to February 23, 2014 is the exhibition Faces to Remember: Chinese Portraits of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911). Located on Level 1 of the ROM’s Philosophers’ Walk building, the Levy Gallery is the Museum's main venue for its diverse slate of rotating East Asian exhibitions - themed displays drawn from the ROM’s vast collections of Chinese, Japanese and Korean artifacts.
Magpies, Hand axe, and Highway - Dr. Chen Shen and the ROM-China Luonan Project
![Dr. Chen Shen Dr. Chen Shen](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/figure_6_resized.jpg?itok=_Nyqx6Lr)
In China the colourful and beautiful sounds of the Eurasian Magpies (Figure 1) historically have been described in many poems and throughout literature...
Nature meets Culture at Archaeology Weekend!
![Finial in the form of a lion's head, Syria, ivory, c. 800-600 BC, 996.86.1 Finial in the form of a lion's head, Syria, ivory, c. 800-600 BC, 996.86.1](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/lion_2.jpg?itok=tnA4Wjx0)
Humans would have been aware of the other creatures that shared their world from earliest times. At first they would have had an eye towards possible predators or competitors, then possible prey as they became hunters. As the cognitive ability of Early Humans developed, they would observe the nature of the animals which co-habited this Earth with them.
In Search of ROMance: Looking for love in all the right places
![Earthenware and polychrome decorated centerpiece depicting playing putti. A colourful earthenware bowl with figures of putti dancing around outter rim.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/985.76.1_rom2012_12493_1.jpg?itok=e1l1q1r4)
The ROM may be the most romantic place in the city this Valentine’s Day. We scan the collection for signs of Cupid… and find they are everywhere.