Egypt
Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications
With slideshow.
- More Re Kharga City Discovery
New York Times (John Noble Wilford) With map and photographs. Over the last two decades, John Coleman Darnell and his wife, Deborah, hiked and drove caravan tracks west of the Nile from the monuments of Thebes, at present-day Luxor. These and other desolate...
- Desert Settlement Provides Insights Into History Of Egypt
Yale Alumni Magazine (Heather Pringle) The newly found settlement in Kharga Oasis looks like an absolute gem. This story is much informative than yesterday's SCA press release and has some very useful details about the reasoning behind the excavation...
- The Archaeology Of Kurkur Oasis, Nuq‘ Maneih, And The Sinn El-kiddab
Yale Egyptological Institue in Egypt By John Coleman Darnell and Deborah Darnell Nearly one hundred years ago, Arthur Weigall was inspired by the excursions of Harkhuf, the Old Kingdom official who made at least four trips deep into the Western Desert...
- Arce-dc Lecture - The Girga Road
Thanks very much to Chris Townsend for sending me details of a lecture by John Coleman Darnell at the Benjamin T. Rome Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.. Chris says that it was an excellent lecture...
- Institute Boosts Egypt Program
http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=34071 "Yale's Egyptology program may not yet have a large presence on campus, but it will soon have a home overseas as construction continues on the Yale Institute in Egypt. Construction of the many...
Egypt
More re Kharga discovery
Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications
With slideshow.
A Yale team led by Professor of Egyptology John Coleman Darnell has unearthed a lost city—site of a massive bread-making industry—that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the Western desert of Egypt.
The discovery of the remains of this mud-brick settlement, which functioned as an administrative center as well as major supplier of bread, stands to shed new light on an obscure era in Egyptian history, the Second Intermediate Period, when rival factions contended for domination of what had been a prosperous state united under Pharaonic rule, asserts Darnell.
During this period, invaders from Asia, the Hyksos, seized control of the Nile Delta in the north; the Nubian kingdom of Kerma was centered in the south, and what remained of
Pharaonic power struggled to survive in the Thebaid, the region around modern Luxor.
Egyptologists have focused on these three contending groups during this intermediate period, and how the weakest of these, the Pharaonic forces based in Thebes, managed to come out on top has always been something of a mystery, says Darnell.
- More Re Kharga City Discovery
New York Times (John Noble Wilford) With map and photographs. Over the last two decades, John Coleman Darnell and his wife, Deborah, hiked and drove caravan tracks west of the Nile from the monuments of Thebes, at present-day Luxor. These and other desolate...
- Desert Settlement Provides Insights Into History Of Egypt
Yale Alumni Magazine (Heather Pringle) The newly found settlement in Kharga Oasis looks like an absolute gem. This story is much informative than yesterday's SCA press release and has some very useful details about the reasoning behind the excavation...
- The Archaeology Of Kurkur Oasis, Nuq‘ Maneih, And The Sinn El-kiddab
Yale Egyptological Institue in Egypt By John Coleman Darnell and Deborah Darnell Nearly one hundred years ago, Arthur Weigall was inspired by the excursions of Harkhuf, the Old Kingdom official who made at least four trips deep into the Western Desert...
- Arce-dc Lecture - The Girga Road
Thanks very much to Chris Townsend for sending me details of a lecture by John Coleman Darnell at the Benjamin T. Rome Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.. Chris says that it was an excellent lecture...
- Institute Boosts Egypt Program
http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=34071 "Yale's Egyptology program may not yet have a large presence on campus, but it will soon have a home overseas as construction continues on the Yale Institute in Egypt. Construction of the many...