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Justin Jennings and ROMtravel visit a hacienda in Mexico

Submitted by  Justin Jennings, Curator, Department of World Cultures.  Follow his Maya adventures with ROMTravel. Today, we took a break from the world of the Pre-Hispanic Maya, and took a trip to a hacienda  that has been painstakingly assembled as it would have stood at the beginning of the

Justin Jennings leads ROMtravellers through 2,000 years of Maya history

Submitted by  Justin Jennings, Curator, Department of World Cultures.  Follow his Maya adventures with ROMTravel. As our bus travels through Mexico, it feels as if we are touring through 2,000 years of history.  Today, our bus started out in Campeche, a city fortified against English pirates

ROM Curator Justin Jennings writes from ROMtravel trip to Maya lands.

Submitted by  Justin Jennings, Curator, Department of World Cultures.  Follow his Maya adventures  with ROMTravel. Tikal was one of the most important sites of the Classic Maya – one of the two superpowers of the Maya world that used its political, economic, and ritual might to hold sway over

Curator Justin Jennings fills us in on ROMtravel Maya journey

Submitted by  Justin Jennings, Curator, Department of World Cultures.  Follow his Maya adventures  with ROMTravel. Chichicastenango  - a mouthful for the non Maya speaker, but one of the most beautiful towns in the highlands of Guatemala. Church of Santo Tomás The ROM's Maya tour was just

Did End-of-World Prophesiers have too much Time on their Hands?

Submitted by Conrad Biernacki, ROM Programs Manager  Last Friday, a keen and curious crowd of 75 people attended the ROM’s monthly Connecting: Mix Mingle Think event for a talk by the Museum’s ancient world expert Gayle Gibson called The Long Goodbye: Apocalypse 2012? Six facts you may not

Notes from Oman: Part 3

Dr. Sarah Fee, Associate Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Textiles & Costumes, is the first-ever recipient of the YPC Research Fund. This November 2011, YPC supported Sarah’s trip to Oman to research ancient forms of pitloom weaving and the trade routes of the Muscat cloth, which will inform part

Old Collection, New Research

Dr. Chen Shen, Vice President, Senior Curator, Bishop White Chair of East Asian Archaeology at the ROM gives a preview of his presentation, Peking Man Revisited: A Who’s Who of Human Evolution at the upcoming ROM Research Colloquium this Friday, February 3 in the Signy and Cléophée Eaton

Battling over Healthcare

Submitted by Conrad Biernacki, ROM Programs Manager  This past Wednesday evening, there was a battle in the main gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum. On one side of the stage was Michael Bliss who argued for the debate resolution that Tommy Douglas put Canada’s healthcare on the wrong path, and

Ushering in the year of the dragon in the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity

A sneak peak at our new komodo dragon before the work begins With the start of the Chinese New Year, all thoughts are on dragons – the presiding animal zodiac for this lunar year. Unlike many European mythologies where dragons are menacing villains, the dragon zodiac represents wealth, prosperity

Will the World Ever End?

Submitted by Conrad Biernacki, ROM Programs Manager  A few weeks ago, Stephen Hawking’s advice to humankind—his gift to us on his 70 th birthday—was a very serious request that we must colonize other planets as soon as possible. Does he know something we don’t? He’s hoping, of course,