Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Who Is Left Standing? A Marriage and a Department Are Wrecked, So Colleen Is the Only Egyptologist at Yale for Now

John Darnell was considered the department's Indiana Jones.

The first Mrs. Darnell was actually a pioneer in the field
and was listed as a member of the Yale Egyptology faculty.


http://neveryetmelted.com/2013/02/02/scandal-strikes-yale-egyptology-department/

And who’s left standing?


When John Darnell agreed to a one-year suspension from the Yale faculty following numerous University policy violations, he left the Egyptology division of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department without a chair and with just one full-time faculty member — associate professor Colleen Manassa ’01 GRD’05, with whom he allegedly had the intimate relationship that led to his suspension.

Hat tip to John Brewer.
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NUKEBUBBA

A little more eye makeup and she will look like one of the musician women on the walls of the Tomb of Nakht. Does her mummy know how she is behaving?




02 Feb 2013 um 4:18 pm


GOOSE GANDER

Nice way to get a promotion – sleep with the boss and get him fired.
If he violated the policy, why is she not also suspended? Presumably she knew about the policy, and the breaking of it, and did nothing to report it. I’m not sure that I see that much difference between what he did, and what she did. (Presuming that it was all consensual.)

Colleen Manassa

Colleen Manassa Darnell

William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Associate Professor of Egyptology at Yale University
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Theban Desert Road Survey
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The Theban Desert Road Survey is an archaeological research project operated in conjunction with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture's Supreme Council for Antiquities that is being conducted in the Libyan Desert in Egypt west of the Nile River that focuses on the ancient connections between Thebes and such settlements as the Kharga Oasis. The project uses remote sensing to identify roads and caravan trails that were used in antiquity to identify possible sites of previously unknown communities.[1] Established in 1991 by Egyptologists John Coleman Darnell and his wife Deborah Darnell, the survey project grew substantially when it gained the support of Yale University in 1998.[1] The Theban Desert Road Survey has discovered sites from Predynastic Egypt, including substantial caches of pottery and other artifacts.[1]

The project was begun by John Coleman Darnell and Deborah Darnell, who started searching along caravan trails in the Western Desert west of Luxor in the early 1990s under an approach they described as desert road archaeology.[2][3] Among their discoveries are inscriptions found at Wadi el-Hol, dating back 3,800 years, which are in the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet, some of the earliest known examples of phonetic alphabetic writing, in contrast to the pictographs used in Egyptian hieroglyphs.[4][1]

Manassa was curator for one exhibit,
so she wore this Egyptian costume.


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