EMAS Easter Study Tour to Yorkshire
28 March to 3 April 2013
Details of the Study Tour are online here...
How Roman Britain and Ur came to Ontario
Welcome to the virtual exhibit for
The Lost Collections
of the Ancient World
This is the story of a collection of artefacts from Mesopotamia and Roman Britain, which were re-discovered buried deep in the Museum of Ontario Archaeology's collections storage in January 2011.
A lucky set of circumstances led the Museum's education co-ordinator, Katie Urban, and archaeologist, Paige Glenen, both of whom have backgrounds in Greek, Roman and Near Eastern archaeology, to uncover these ancient treasures.
The big question - how did they come to be in Ontario, Canada?
"We knew there had been something there, we just didn't know where it was.
"Now we have the village, and it is quite an extensive village.
"We have got a really extensive area of maybe half a kilometre where we have had buildings right along the road running to the salmon viewing centre."