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Dr Fahmida Suleman

Sir Robert Ludwig Mond

e British Empire, including Canada. He was a great supporter of education and funded hospitals, including the Hospital for Sick Children. Many of the Egyptian artifacts brought to the Museum by Charles T. Currelly were from excavations funded by Sir Robert Mond. He funded Currelly’s early

Plants and Animals of the Nile

of the Nile The ancient inhabitants of the Nile were closely aware of their physical surroundings, especially the other living things in the valley. Egyptian art is filled with wonderful pictures of the animals and plants that the Ancient people knew and loved. Because of the nature of the country,

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

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 there was

Erasing Mankind’s Heritage: the Monuments of Palmyra and their Devastation

Erasing Mankind’s Heritage: the Monuments of Palmyra and their Devastation

Toronto and Associate Curator for the Ancient Near East at the ROM. He has excavated and surveyed extensively on sites in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Between 2004-10 he has co-directed excavations at Hamoukar, a large Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age site in northeastern Syria, excavate

Green with Envy

part of the olivine-group, and was first discovered on small island (4.5 km squared), St. John’s Island (also known as Zabargad), off the coast of Egypt, in the Red Sea. Myanmar has been a known source of peridot for hundreds of years and recently production has tapered off making it increasingl

Artists and Sculptors

Artists and Sculptors Why did Ancient Egyptians draw and sculpt that way? They did not have a word that corresponds to our word 'art'. They do not seem to have made statues or paintings to collect or to hang on the walls of museums and art galleries. But they loved to be surrounded by bea

Textiles

Textiles All ancient Egyptians, rich or poor, male or female, wore linen clothing.. The lists of offerings in tombs almost always mentions linen as something that the deceased would need in the next world. There are many steps required to make linen from flax. Great skill was required to turn the s

Sir Edmund Boyd Osler

d to serve until 1917. Osler was also interested in arts and travel. In 1906 to 1907, he was among several prominent Torontonians who paid a visit to Egypt where they met Charles T. Currelly, an archaeologist and the future director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology. Osler offered to help

Scribes and Bureaucrats

Scribes and Bureaucrats Few skills were more important in Egypt than the ability to read and write. No illiterate could hold high office. Knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic made the scribe a person of importance, one who watched while others sweated in the sun. Scribes gave the orders whi