Donald P. Ryan
Archaeologist
Faculty Fellow in the Humanities
College of Liberal Studies
Tacoma, Washington 98447 USA
Email: ryandp@plu.edu
Web-site: sites.google.com/plu.edu/donald-p-ryan
With this Web Page, it is my intent to share my areas of interest, and some of the products of my research,
along with links to resources related to the same.
Click on highlighted text for additional information.
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND PROJECTS
(including work in the Valley of the Kings)
Thor Heyerdahl (Under Construction)
Mountaineering (Under Construction)
BOOKS!
A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Originally Published by Michael O'Mara Books
(Now available in English, Japanese and French and available as an audio book in English ready by Philip Bretherton)
24 HOURS IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Originally Published by Michael O'Mara Books
(Now available in several languages and editions, and as an audio book in French and English)*
BENEATH THE SANDS OF EGYPT
Published by HarperCollins
(Available in Hardbound and Paperback and as an audio book in English read by Paul Boehmer)
PRAISE FOR
BENEATH THE SANDS OF EGYPT
"Don Ryan is a rare bird - a field archaeologist who can write with verve and immediacy. I heartily recommend this book to all Egyptology buffs."
- Barbara Mertz (a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels)
"This wonderful adventure story should be must reading for anyone aspiring to become an archaeologist, but even those of us who harbor no such dreams will be aching to get a little dirt under our fingernails."
Booklist (starred review)
"Ryan's observations are intimate, frank, and perceptive, and his spirited adventures in underappreciated avenues of exploration are a boon for armchair and budding archaeologists."
- Publishers Weekly
And published in German by Theiss Verlag
"Wer wissen will, was Archäologie wirklich ist, sollte dieses Buch lesen."
ANCIENT EGYPT ON FIVE DEBEN A DAY
Originally Published by Thames & Hudson and available in several foreign language editions and under another title:
"Egypt: 1250 BC" by American University in Cairo Press**
From Routledge
From American University in Cairo Press
Kon-Tiki Museum Occasional Papers Volume 14
(With seven chapters by Donald P. Ryan)
I am greatly honored to have written a new introduction for the following wonderful book by Thor Heyerdahl;
a book that has inspired generations of explorers on land, sea and in space.
(Published in Norwegian by Gyldendal)
*Covers for "24 Hours in Ancient Egypt" are in the following languages from right to left:
English, Dutch, Chinese, Serbian, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Estonian, Simplifed Chinese, Slovak,
Japanese, Korean and French. English audio book read by Jonathan Beville; French by Vincent de Boüard.
**Covers for "Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day, are in the following languages from right to left:
English, Spanish
Portuguese, Hungarian, Thai and Russian
Photo of Donald P. Ryan by Denis E. Whitfill, Egypt, 2022.