Also credited as: Colleen Manassa, Colleen Darnell, John and Colleen Darnell Dr. Colleen Darnell is an American Egyptologist known for her Instagram account Vintage Egyptologist as well as a YouTube channel of the same name that she runs with her husband and fellow Egyptologist John Darnell. She has made numerous contributions and discoveries to the study of Egyptian history and has appeared in documentaries as an expert of the field, including on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, the Science Channel, and Smithsonian, as well as appeared in National Geographic’s “Lost Treasures of Egypt.” Colleen teaches art history at the University of Hartford and Naugatuck Valley Community College; she has curated a major museum exhibit on Egyptian revival art and design at the Yale Peabody Museum.