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ROMKids Show: The One With the Women of the ROM

'The Elements of Armories': A Very Short History of Heraldry

The colourful pennants and shields  carried by bold knights and courageous squires are known to us today from illustrated books and films telling stories of Robin Hood, or King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. But these bright emblems are more than decoration, and have long historical

The Monastery of St Moses, Syria: The Prehistoric Remains

Since 2004 I had walked the Qalamoun mountains around the monastery of Deir Mar Musa looking for archaeological features to record. In all that time I found one lithic, a stone tool from humanity’s prehistoric past. My colleagues back home that specialised in these objects would say that I just

Paradigm Shift. How Archaeology is Rewriting the History of the Americas

FULL Paradigm Shift.  How Archaeology is Rewriting the History of the Americas  Thursday, September 26, 2024, 6:30 pm- 9:15 pm FREE. RSVP Required. From the Canadian Arctic to the mountains of central Mexico, new research is shifting the long-standing western scientific narrative that human

First Peek at Empty Skies: The Legacy of the Passenger Pigeon

  This weekend marks the opening of the ROM’s latest special exhibition, Empty Skies: the Passenger Pigeon Legacy. It’s a bittersweet exhibit for the ROM; On September 1st, 1914, almost exactly 100 years ago, Martha, the last known Passenger Pigeon, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. The

Singing the Blues: The Mystery of B105

Guest blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Viridiana Jimenez For millions of years, the underwater world was a stage for the sounds of marine creatures, big and small. However, this symphony eventually became masked by the sounds of a creature new to the oceans: humans.

Afterimage: Tod Ainslie's Vision of the War of 1812