Being A Kid In Ancient Egypt

About Dr. Colleen Darnell

A Yale-trained Egyptologist, Dr. Colleen Darnell has traveled the world researching hieroglyphic inscriptions. She led an archaeological expedition in Egypt that discovered a fifteen-hundred year old Roman settlement in the Eastern Desert, and with her husband, Professor John Darnell, published the first complete English translation of the texts in the Valley of the Kings. Dr. Darnell was the first to identify works of historical fiction written by the ancient Egyptians themselves. Colleen and her husband Professor John Darnell have been hard at work on an exciting new biography of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, the parents of King Tut, entitled Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth, published November 1, 2022 by St Martin's Press. She shares her passion for Egyptology with “kids” of all ages.

About the class

What do the pharaohs, pyramid builders, hieroglyphic artists, and mummies of Ancient Egypt all have in common? They were once kids, and in fact their lives were a lot more similar to present-day childhoods than we may realize. Join Dr. Colleen Darnell to explore what it was like to grow up in Ancient Egypt: what games kids played, what clothing and hairstyles were popular, how they interacted with their pets, and more!