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I found the Baby Bison and now I’m on my way to Grasslands National Park

cause I am very interested in the kind of things that are there. This past winter, my class went on a trip to the ROM to see the Maya exhibit and the Ancient Egypt stuff.  We entered through the school entrance, so I never saw the sign that said, “Find the Baby Bison”.  After our Maya tour

Tours- June 12.24

Tours in English 11 am           Museum Highlights 12 pm          Ancient Egypt & Nubia 1 pm            Museum Highlights 2 pm           Murder and Mayhem   Visites guidées en français 14 h              Les trésors du musée Please note: Tours are subject to ch

Theban Tomb #89 Epigraphic Project

Theban Tomb #89 Epigraphic Project

Theban Tomb #89 was built by Amenmose who served King Amenhotep III (1391-1353 BC), King Tutankhamun’s grandfather. The tomb is located on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, Egypt, among some 500 tombs that dot the hillside, dating roughly from 1500- 1200 BC. The project’s goal is to record

Mortuary Chapels

could supply food when the living forgot or were unable to provide. The decoration of these chapels is one of the main sources for information about Ancient Egypt. Scenes of hunting in the deserts, fishing and fowling in the marshes, dancing and singing, children playing and family members enjoying

Tours- May 31.24

lish 11 am            Museum Highlights 12 pm           Murder and Mayhem 1 pm             Museum Highlights 2 pm            Ancient Egypt & Nubia 3 pm            Museum Highlights Visites guidées en français 14 h              Les trésors du musée

Tours- June 7.24

Tours in English 11 am            Museum Highlights 12 pm           Ancient Egypt & Nubia 1 pm             Museum Highlights 2 pm            China 3 pm            Museum Highlights Visites guidées en français 14 h              Les trésors du musée Pleas

Ceramic Petrology Laboratory

Ceramic Petrology Laboratory

A core part of the archaeological science research at the ROM is the Ceramic Petrology Laboratory. Petrology or Petrographic analysis is a technique developed in the earth-sciences for observation of rocks and minerals. It involves creating a "thin-section" of the material being studied,

March Break 2013- Passport to the World

March Break 2013- Passport to the World

Who’s ready for March Break? We are! For months now, we at the ROM have been working away getting ready for the most exciting and active time of our year: March Break (aka Spring Break to those without kids in Ontario schools)! This year we’re going all out with what’s possibly the BIGGEST

Clemens Reichel

Discoveries at Harvard – ROM expertise at work

This week I am in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Harvard Art Museums  here are rebuilding, and planning new galleries, and have also acquired a new collection of pottery from the Middle East.  So they have flown me down here for the week on an all-expenses-paid visit, to look at their Islamic