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This workshop will bring you behind the scenes where our conservators will demonstrate the techniques that will help you maintain objects in your house.

Dr. Clemens Reichel launches the Explore Mesopotamia Speaker Series with a look at the  powerful kings of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia through monumental architecture, art, and ancient inscriptions. Dr. Reichel is the ROM Curator of Mesopotamia; Assistant Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology, Dept of Near and Middle Eastern Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Associate Curator (Ancient Near East), Dept of World Cultures, Royal Ontario Museum.

Coinciding with the opening of our newest exhibition Mesopotamia:Inventing Our World, join world experts for a series of informative and entertaining lectures delving into the archaeology, art and mystery of ancient Mesopotamia.

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The University of Toronto’s excavations at Tell Tayinat, located on the Plain of Antioch in southeastern Turkey, have uncovered the impressive remains of an Assyrian settlement (ca. 8^th-7^th Cent.

Small, unassuming clay balls have come to play a central role in the debate over the origins of writing, having been made famous by Denise Schmandt-Besserat and her theory of the origins of writing.   The balls, which range from the size of golf balls to baseballs, are better described as envelop

Images uncovered from splendid palaces at Nineveh and Nimrud, coupled with vivid accounts in the Bible where Assyria was reviled by the prophet Isaiah, give us something of the face Assyria presented to the outside world.

La prise de Babylone par le roi des Perses, Cyrus le Grand, en 539 av, J.C., nous est connue à travers plusieurs sources anciennes, dont Hérodote et la Bible, qui lui ont conféré une aura légendaire.