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Battle of Marathon: The Helmet With the Soldier’s Skull Still Inside

This remarkable Corinthian-style helmet from the Battle of Marathon was reputedly found in 1834 with a human skull still inside. It now forms part of the Royal Ontario Museum’s collections, but originally it was discovered by George Nugent-Grenville, who was...

Ancient Greek Coins Are “Unique Works of Art”

A team of scholars from the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) are studying, cataloging, and publishing information on more than two thousand Ancient Greek coins. “Greek coinage is so interesting because it’s almost the earliest coinage—at...

Acropolis Museum Marks 13th Anniversary with Half-Price Ticket

The Acropolis Museum will mark its thirteenth anniversary on Monday, June 20th by offering all visitors half-price tickets of five euros for all its exhibition areas. At 3 pm, visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy music by the Woodwind...

Octopus With 10 Arms Named After US President Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden has a lot of things named after him, including a planet and a train station, but the most unusual one yet is an octopus. A cephalopod, whose ancestors roamed the oceans millions of years ago,...

Acropolis Museum Loans Kore Statue, Other Artifacts to Toronto

Starting on March 12, 2022, visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, can experience Kore 670 — a gift to a goddess, one of the best-preserved and most stunningly beautiful Korai statues from the Acropolis of Athens. To...

Alexander The Great in U.S., Canada

The exhibition The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander The Great will be hosted in four museums in Canada and the USA from December 2014 to September 2016. The exhibition will be presented at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Canadian Museum of...