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Iconic: Cleopatra
Museum iconic object. Only three pieces of Ptolemaic sculpture like this exist in the world today. This one is on display in the Galleries of Africa: Egypt.
Iconic: Statue of Sekhmet
Dating to the reign of King Tutankhamun's grandfather, this Egyptian sculpture is a very fine example of one of the oldest known Egyptian deities, the lion-headed warrior goddess also known as Mistress of Dread and Lady of Slaughter. On display in the Galleries of Africa: Egypt, the statue is
The Children's Miracle Network at The ROM!
n that you witness children jumping out of their seats to dance, learning about DNA, examining dinosaur fossils, and exploring the secrets of Ancient Egypt all in one day. On Monday, October 7, the Royal Ontario Museum was pleased to host the Children’s Miracle Network Program, welcoming 12
Story of Nubia
leries of Africa: Nubia at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto allow visitors to explore an exxtraordiary ancient legacy that stretched from Aswan in Egypt to Khartoum in Sudan through the lens of both ancient artifacts and ongoing, current ROM archaeological research. Galleries of Africa: Nubia
My Favourite Object: A "Tell Minis" Style Lustre-Ware Bowl
first thing you notice about this bowl is its decoration. It looks lile a sphinx, a mythical beast more popularly associated with the sphinx at Giza, Egypt. It was permitted to depict mythical beasts in Islamic law, whereas depictions of humans or animals were considered close to idolatry. Objects
Go with the Flow: Technology & Early Glass
as a flux makes a glass of lower softening temperature and high density. Possibly the oldest fragment of glass in the ROM (photographed in the Egypt gallery), other fragments *may* be older, but this is from the reliably-dated occupation of Tell al-Amarna in Egypt, Amarna Period, 18th Dynasty
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
Erasing Mankind’s Heritage: the Monuments of Palmyra and their Devastation
Toronto and Associate Curator for the Ancient Near East at the ROM. He has excavated and surveyed extensively on sites in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Between 2004-10 he has co-directed excavations at Hamoukar, a large Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age site in northeastern Syria, excavate