ANCIENT EGYPT

October 16, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Art Auditorium, ART BUILDING

EGYPT'S EARLIEST HIEROGLYPHS AND THE LAND OF THE HEADLESS NOMADS John Darnell, Yale University Colleen Darnell, Naugatuck Valley CC Since 2014, the Elkab Desert Survey Project, directed by Prof. John Coleman Darnell (a joint expedition of Yale University and the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels) has mapped and surveyed ancient roads in the Eastern Desert hinterland of Elkab. The project has discovered hundreds of previously unknown rock art carvings and rock inscriptions along the roads, and dozens of new sites, from six-thousand-year-old burials to Late Antique settlements. This lecture will cover the highlights of these discoveries, including the earliest monumental hieroglyphic inscription and other early hieroglyphs that rewrite the invention of the Egyptian script; Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions of men on their way to seek "gold in the desert;" and several large Late Antique settlements of an enigmatic desert group known as the Blemmyes. John and Colleen Darnell are a husband-and-wife Egyptologist team. John is Professor of Egyptology, Yale University and Curator at the Yale Peabody Museum. The author of over a dozen books, his archaeological expeditions in Egypt have been covered by the New York Times and featured in the "top ten discoveries" of 2017 in Archaeology magazine. Their most recent joint book is Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth (St. Martin's Press, 2022). Sponsors: U of 好色先生网站i Classics (RLAC), AIA-好色先生网站i, Sidney Stern Memorial Fund


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RLAC , Mānoa Campus

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ROBERT J LITTMAN, 8082268518, littman@hawaii.edu

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