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Charles T. Currelly

lthough trained as a Methodist minister, following his graduation from the University of Toronto, he devoted himself to archaeological work, first in Egypt, and later in Crete and Asia Minor. It was in Egypt that Currelly discovered he had a talent for collecting: a nose for bargains and an ability

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Sir Robert Ludwig Mond

e British Empire, including Canada. He was a great supporter of education and funded hospitals, including the Hospital for Sick Children. Many of the Egyptian artifacts brought to the Museum by Charles T. Currelly were from excavations funded by Sir Robert Mond. He funded Currelly’s early

Sir Edmund Boyd Osler

d to serve until 1917. Osler was also interested in arts and travel. In 1906 to 1907, he was among several prominent Torontonians who paid a visit to Egypt where they met Charles T. Currelly, an archaeologist and the future director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology. Osler offered to help

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is and Euphrates Rivers, and conquered regions including the Levantine coast of the Mediterranean (modern-day Israel, Lebanon, and Syria), as well as Egypt. The artifact modeled here, at more than twice its original size, shows an Egyptian style winged man holding onto the branch of a sacred tree.