Egypt
Yale Egyptological Institue in Egypt
By John Coleman Darnell and Deborah Darnell
See the above page for more.
- 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...
- 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...
- Middle Kingdom/2nd Intermediate Settlement Discovered At Umm Mawagir In Kharga Oasis
drhawass.com Press Release, with photos. I think that "stumbled upon" is probably a little harsh! The American-Egyptian mission from Yale University has stumbled upon what appears to be the remains of a substantial settlement. The city is a thousand years...
- 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
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 to contact and “pacify” various Libo-Nubian groups, opening up a road to the south. Although Weigall wrote vividly of the routes leading from Aswan across and beneath the Sinn el-Kiddab plateau, accessing the region of the Second Cataract and points beyond,2 his invitation to visitors to leave the attractions of Aswan for the roads of the southwest has attracted relatively few archaeologists and Egyptologists.
The Yale Toshka Desert Survey represents the first investigation devoted to assessing the presence and extent of evidence for activity in the small oasis of Kurkur (Figure 1) during the Predynastic and Pharaonic periods. During the Nubian Salvage Campaign of the 1960’s, an earlier Yale expedition studied Kurkur for about five days; although the expedition achieved considerable results of a geological and climatological nature, its archaeological observations were more modest, and are known only through a number of preliminary reports. Hester and Hobler published some additional archaeological material from Kurkur, as part of an expedition covering a larger area of the Sinn el-Kiddab and its western hinterland.
See the above page for more.
- 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...
- 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...
- Middle Kingdom/2nd Intermediate Settlement Discovered At Umm Mawagir In Kharga Oasis
drhawass.com Press Release, with photos. I think that "stumbled upon" is probably a little harsh! The American-Egyptian mission from Yale University has stumbled upon what appears to be the remains of a substantial settlement. The city is a thousand years...
- 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...