Egypt
Yale Daily News (Charlotte Wang)
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- 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 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...
- Mapping Ancient Egyptian Sites
archaeology-news.org Hundreds of viper trails covered the sand before them. The Egyptologists could only hope that the serpents themselves were long gone as they made their way off the ancient desert road towards the limestone cliffs. First to reach the...
- 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 Natacha Rambova archive
Yale Daily News (Charlotte Wang)
The recently acquired collection from the research of silent film star turned Egyptologist Natacha Rambova will pave the way for new research, John Darnell, Yale professor of Egyptology, said Monday.
More than 40 people gathered in the lecture hall of Sterling Memorial Library to hear Darnell discuss more than 10,000 items that comprise the new Egyptological archive, which includes photos, comparative files, images and diagrams. In his lecture, Darnell explained the meaning of the historical archive, which was donated in 2007 by Edward Ochsenschlageron behalf of New York University professor Donald Hansen. The documents are miniature depictions of the upper world, lower world and the cosmic cycle, Darnell said.
These collections will, for the first time, publicize the impressive work Rambova conducted in her career, Colleen Manassa, an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, said.
“Natasha Rambova, in addition to being a set designer, dancer, was also a photographer and a scholar in Egyptology and her work specifically focused on symbolism and theology,” Manassa said. “Although a lot of Egyptologists look at her work, it is underappreciated and we are trying to bring her work to the forefront.”
The collection of documents, which displays Rambova’s innovative approach, provides a framework to do new research, Darnell said.
See the above page for the full story.
- 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 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...
- Mapping Ancient Egyptian Sites
archaeology-news.org Hundreds of viper trails covered the sand before them. The Egyptologists could only hope that the serpents themselves were long gone as they made their way off the ancient desert road towards the limestone cliffs. First to reach the...
- 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...