A marine worm with a strange crown of tentacles, published in the journal Current Biology, is the latest new species to be named from the famous, 506-million-year-old Burgess Shale. Located in the

Despite there being almost 1,400 years of occupation at Deir Mar Musa, strangely the overwhelming majority of the pottery found at the site can be assigned to the "Mamluk" period. The period of Mamluk

A woman in a red jumpsuit opens her mouth to speak. Her voice is strained, every word an act of will. “Once upon a time, there was a girl, and the girl had a shadow.” Jordan Peele’s Us (2019) begins

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Deir Mar Musa, or the Monastery of St. Moses, can be found about 90 km north of Damascus in the desert Qalamoun Mountains, isolated between the road from Damascus to Homs/Hama/Aleppo and the road from

Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) was born in the late 19th century—a time when society was beginning to question the rapid industrialization and capitalism that was reverberating across the world. Marked

The ROM gardens are lush and plants have filled in nicely in the past two weeks. The leaves on the witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) are fully expanded and providing shade. Canada anemone (Anemone

“To keep you is no gain; to destroy you is no loss” – Alexander Hinton, Why Did They Kill? The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Observance and

Janet Carding, Director and CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), announces the appointment of Wende Cartwright and Susan Crocker as the new Co-Chairs of the Board of Directors of the Institute for