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ONE-MA3 – Day XXIII: Gypsum, Gypsum, Everywhere!

July 26, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Over the course of the entire trip, we’ve heard all about gypsum. Gypsum this, gypsum that. When I first heard the word during the information sessions for ONE-MA^3, I was confused by […]

ONE-MA3: Castle on the Hill

July 19, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Anna Landler ’22 I went into this trip with few expectations. That’s not the same as low expectations. I simply did not have any concrete things that I expected. I had a notion of general […]

ONE-MA3: More Than Travel Companions

July 19, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Anna Landler ’22 ONE-MA3 has provided each of us with an unrivaled experience. We have had experts lecture in every aspect of conservation from history to preservation methods. Just the other day we had Duncan, […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XX: Photogrammetry among Pharaohs!

July 17, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Today, we got to be professionals. At least, the red bars of tape that blocked off certain areas of the Museo Egizio for us to work in made us feel like we […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XIX: Face-to-Face With 3000-Year-old Artifacts!

July 17, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Usually, most ancient artifacts can only be seen being displayed behind glass under scattered spotlight, or even from afar behind a rail. Today however, there were no boundaries when it came to […]

ONE-MA3: Our last day in Italia

July 16, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Meriah Gannon ’22 Almost three and a half weeks after we first landed in Italy, our last full day in this country has arrived. Although I was sad to see this day come, I was […]

ONE-MA3: Gypsum Adventures in Aramengo

July 16, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Carene Umubyeyi ’22 Our last day of ONE-MA3 was spent applying what we learned in Professor Ochsendorf’s lecture at the American Academy in Rome by constructing our own gypsum shell structures using minimal reinforcement. We […]

The Power of Pigments

July 15, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Even though the ONE-MA^3 program has finished, I decided to stay in Italy to work with the University of Turin and the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) studying the pigment Egyptian blue and […]

ONE-MA3: Finding the Ever-Elusive “Work-Life Balance”

July 15, 2019 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

By Anna Landler ’22 I think that I just received arguably the best lecture of my life. There is some serious competition – I had Professor Eric Lander for 7.012 – but this lecture is certainly […]

A Discussion Over the Ethics of Mummified Hands

July 11, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 While I’m here in Italy, I have been completing most of my research at the Museo Egizio of Turin, which is home to the second largest collection of Egyptian artifacts in the […]

ONE-MA3: Day XXIV: A Grand Gypsum-Filled Finale

July 10, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 Even though the bittersweet end of the ONE-MA^3 program has been rapidly approaching, our pace of completing research has kept at a quick clip, if not even faster than it has been […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XVIII: Night at the Egyptian Museum…During the Day

July 8, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 We all know the story of Night at the Museum, and many of us can admit to fantasizing when we were younger about what might happen if artifacts of figurines and mummies […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XVII: La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Center

July 8, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

Sophia Mittman ’22 It has been quite a difference to go from the narrow and bustling streets of Rome to the long, wide, and French-looking facades of Turin with the Alps peeping above the city in […]

ONE-MA3 – Searching for Egyptian Blue and Creating Our Own

July 8, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Naomi Lutz ’22 We first learned about Egyptian Blue the first week in Sermoneta when we used the pigment to make our frescoes. We knew little about it other than that it was the first […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XV: All Roads Lead to Rome…

July 8, 2019 | ONE-MA3 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 In the past few days we have learned about some of the major networks that Romans constructed such as roads (like the Via Appia) and aqueducts (like the Anio Novus), and indeed […]