Ancient Cultures

Associate Curator Justin Jennings talks about Moche objects on loan to the ROM from the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.

Registrar Lisa Tillotson from the Nickle Arts Museum in Calgary, describes the challenges of transporting and unpacking a priceless collection from Peru.

Assistant curator, Ka Bo Tsang provides an introduction to the exhibition Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690 - 1850 (June 3 to August 12, 2007), highlighting two paintings depicting women by Katsushika Hokusai's, the preeminent ukiyo-e painter.

ROM Artist Georgia Guenther creates a model of the tomb at Huaca Loro as part of the exhibition Ancient Peru Unearthed: Golden Treasures of a Lost Civilization.

Assistant curator, Ka Bo Tsang highlights the range and versatility of Katsushika Hokusai's work, focusing on a banner and two lanterns created by the preeminent ukiyo-e painter, on display in Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690 - 1850 (June 3 to August 12, 2007).

Clemens Reichel, Associate Curator World Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, travelled to Apamea in Syria and takes viewers inside ruins of an ancient Roman house that likely once belonged to a noble family. Learn more about life in ancient Rome in the Eaton Gallery of Rome.

Ce grand guerrier de l’histoire chinoise est célèbre pour avoir défendu la dynastie Ming contre l’invasion mandchoue.

Ce buste de granite représente fort probablement l’une des femmes les plus célèbres de l’histoire, Cléopâtre. Il n’existe que trois exemples de sculpture ptolémaïque semblables dans le monde.

This short documentary tells the story of Nubia and the civilization that flourished in the Nile Valley for thousands of years and particularly between 800 BC and 400 AD. The Galleries 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

Paul Denis, Assistant Curator World Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, describes Roman gladiatorial combat. Romans loved mass spectator sports and flocked to theatres to see this dramatic fight to death. learn more about life in ancient Rome in the Eaton Gallery of Rome.