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From the Field: The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project… Week 2

By Daniel Kwan, Gallery Facilitator and Volunteer Our excavation at Tell Madaba in Jordan has begun! After a rather lengthy cleaning effort, our unit is now free of dense foliage and garbage. In the previous dig season (June 24 – August 8, 2010) we had excavated approximately nine feet down, cut

From the Field: The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project…Week 1

a gallery facilitator in the biodiversity and hands-galleries at the ROM, I am currently on leave and in the field serving as a dig supervisor on the Tell Madaba Archaeological Project (TMAP). Led by Dr. Debra Foran (who is also a teacher at the ROM), TMAP represents only a portion of a regional

From the Field: The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project…Crusader castles, ancient cities, and desert valleys!

oth technical and safety reasons. We will now conduct our excavations in a new square (5M11A1), which lies directly under a stone archway and against Tell Madaba’s fortification wall. As you probably know from my previous posts, my trip to Jordan isn’t all about digging. I recently returned

From the Field: The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project…Artifacts galore!

ded an incredible number of objects in just a few days. Although our efforts did not yield any new architecture, aside from the additional courses of Tell Madaba’s fortification wall, the objects and ceramics provide enough data for an interesting interpretation. Unlike my interpretation of

From the Field: The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project… Weekend Off!

By Daniel Kwan, Gallery Facilitator and Volunteer Our first week of digging is finally complete! My students and I have uncovered the remains of what may be an Iron Age storage room. Excavations have yielded the remains of a stone wall, which would have served as a foundation for a mud brick

From the Field: The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project…progress!

By Daniel Kwan, Gallery Facillitator and Volunteer After their first weekend off, the students have returned recharged and ready to dig! Despite the many bruises and sores that I sustained from my hiking trips, I felt more motivated than ever! Due to the progress that we had made in the previous

Digital Artist Show-and-Tell featuring Sound Selecta

This past Friday, the Institute for Contemporary Culture hosted its first ‘Digital Artist Show and Tell’.  Amidst the glimmering iPad drawings in the David Hockney fresh flowers exhibition, over 30 people spontaneously congregated in the Roloff Beny Gallery for an interactive session with

My Favourite Object: A "Tell Minis" Style Lustre-Ware Bowl

This beautiful bowl, ROM Accession number  960.219.2,  was made in Syria between about AD 1075-1125, and if you read this story, you will find out why I would really like to meet the person that made it.     The first thing you notice about this bowl is its decoration. It looks lile a sphinx, a

“A Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss” but the stories they can tell…

Submitted by Vincent Vertolli, Assistant Curator Geology In September of 1959 Dr. Walter Tovell, Curator of Geology was contacted by the operators of a limestone quarry to find out whether the ROM would be interested in a very unusual boulder they found. Normally when a geologist hears of a

Earth's Archives: Every Rock Tells a Story Part 1

Earth's Archives: Every Rock Tells a Story Part 1

Hermatite By: Ian Nicklin Hematite is a common ore of iron that was extensively mined in northern England in the 19th century. The miners referrred to globular aggregates of hematite, such as this, as "kidney-ore" since it reminded them of the organ. We call this shape