Affiliation: Pacific Lutheran University
Donald Ryan is with Pacific Lutheran University, and holds his degrees from the University of Washington and Union Institute (Ph.D.). His areas of specialization are Egyptian archaeology, the history of archaeology, the history of languages and scripts, the archaeology of Polynesia, and the history of exploration. He has done extensive fieldwork in the Valley of the Kings, co-directed (with Thor Heyedahl) excavation at the Piramides de Guimar on the Canary Islands.
