Dr. Colleen Darnell is an Egyptologist who has published widely on pharaonic history, religion, and literature. Her most recent book, /The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books/ (co-authored with her husband, John Darnell), was the first complete English translation of the hieroglyphic texts within the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. In /Imagining the Past: Historical Fiction in New Kingdom Egypt/, Dr. Darnell identified four stories that belonged to a genre of historical fiction written by the ancient Egyptians themselves. In 2013, she curated an exhibit at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, /Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs/, that examined Egyptian motifs from antiquity to the present.
