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http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp  http://www.wrmea.com/archives/Jan_Feb_2006/0601056.html (NY Met exhibition page)  The Hatshepsut exhibition Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh at the De Young in San Francisco, closed on 5th February 2006, having been on show since October 15th 2005. It is opening at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 28th 2006 and will run until July 9th [...]

http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/ Jane Akshar has been busy on her Luxor News blog, above, with postings including: Professor Earl Ertman talking about scenes showing Nefertiti "smiting" enemies February’s agenda for lectures at the Mummification Museum in Luxor Dr Betsy Byan lecturing about the Temple of Mut, including the most interesting of the discoveries, and a discussion of [...]

http://www.etana.org/abzu/ Thanks to Chuck Jones for the information that ABZU has recently been updated. For those unfamiliar with Abzu, operating since October 1994 it is "a guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet." To find material newly added [...]

http://tinyurl.com/bktkn (AFX News) "Earlier today, the Danish foreign ministry told its nationals to avoid travel to 14 Muslim countries, in addition to Syria and Lebanon where Danish diplomatic missions were attacked by angry protesters at the weekend in protest against the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published in a Danish." The article says that if [...]

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ "As part of the international campaign to rescue Nubia’s monuments, a large project that includes the rebuilding of the Temple of Thutmose III in Suboe’ Valley, is being carried out by the Fund for Nubian Archaeology, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture. The project also includes using solar energy to light up the temples [...]

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/ This occasional column by Zahi Hawass will be replaced in the next edition of the Egyptian Gazette, so it has been reproduced in full below: "During the third excavation season, I decided to spend four days in Bahariya and three days in Giza, running the excavations at the tombs of the pyramid builders. I [...]

http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6352 "CANCELLED, the controversial Downtown Corniche project, which would have expanded the land bordering the Nile at the expense of the river. The decision was announced after Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif held a meeting late last month with several members of his Cabinet and the Cairo and Giza governors. The meeting also resulted in the [...]

http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6362 An article about the future of contribution of China to the Egyptian economy, with a large chunk on Chinese tourism, and the challenges that it presents: "Speakers of most European languages or even Russian speakers can go to nearly any tourist site in Egypt and find someone there who speaks their language. The same [...]

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4482/EEFNEWS.html The EEF’s weekly news digest, which is the best list around for lectures, digitized publications, and exhibitions, as well as providing a roundup of the week’s Egyptology news, is online at the above address.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1702518,00.html "Some of the world’s most precious archaeological treasures - the ancient Egyptian tombs and temples at Luxor - are being devastated by salt water that is eating their foundations, scientists have discovered. The temples of Amun, Luxor and Karnak, designated World Heritage Sites, have survived 4,000 years of arid desert heat but are now [...]

http://www.sltrib.com/travel/ci_3476952  "The guards and soldiers stationed at virtually all Egyptian tourist sites offer no protection from vendors and opportunists. At the main pyramid of Cheops, four Bedouins on camelback galloped up to our group, offering rides. The three pyramids, built around 2,600 B.C., are a stunning introduction to ancient Egypt. Photos and movies don’t quite [...]

Apologies for my absence for the last few days. I have updated the blog, below, with the news from the 2nd February until today, and daily updates will be resumed as from tomorrow. Kind regards Andie

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1400519.cms Egyptian boy Pharaoh King Tutankhamen whose death has intrigued archaeologists, historians and medical experts alike, through three millenniums, seems to have died of infection from a wound in his left knee. Eduard Egarter Vigl, caretaker of Ötzi the Iceman, and Paul Gostner, head of radiology at Bolzano General Hospital, members of the Egyptian-led research [...]

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/egyptian_mail/m2/ A short article about the Alexandrian Pharos lighthouse on the Egyptian Gazette website: "The Alexandria Lighthouse was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The lighthouse, built in the era of Ptolemy II, survived until the Islamic conquest of Egypt. The gate to the lighthouse survived and it’s going to be re-erected outside [...]

http://tinyurl.com/bqhju (Egyptian State Information Service) "The Culture of Egypt has five thousand years of recorded history. Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations. For millennia, Egypt maintained a strikingly complex and stable culture that had a profound influence on later cultures of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After the Pharaonic era, Egypt itself came [...]

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/egyptian_mail/m5/ This article will be on the Egyptian Mail’s website for the next week, after which it will be replaced, so it has been reproduced in full below. “His 50-year-old dream was to witness with his very eyes the application of the latest technologies in every aspect of the lives of future generations. Hala Fawzy [...]

Review: Immortal http://www.computercrowsnest.com/features/arc/2006/nz9761.php  "I know I am not going to remember the film for long. I guess that is ironic for a film called Immortal. But take my word for it there is nothing very immortal about Immortal. These days the lines between animated and live action film are falling away. Immortal is mostly animated, [...]

http://tinyurl.com/bezm6 (The Sydney Morning Herald) A contraversial restructure of the internal organization of the Nicholson Museum, Sydney, Australia: "The head of the Nicholson Museum has been pushed out and a longstanding staff member faces financial ruin as part of the controversial restructure of Sydney University’s museums and art collections. Dr Karin Sowada left the museum [...]

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa15/cwa15.htm The February/March edition (CWA 15) carries an article about ancient Egypt: "Egyptologist Nigel Strudwick draws on his excavation at the Theban tomb of a high official, Senneferi, to explore exactly how élite Egyptian tombs worked. He explains that high-class Egyptian tombs worked on three levels, not only symbolically, but also physically: the deeper down [...]

http://tinyurl.com/895c5 (MakFax) "An Albanian with Macedonian origin, Muhammad Ali Pasha, ruler of Egypt, Syria and Arabia in 19th century, had ordered his French engineer Linan to pull down the Cheops Pyramid.The Great Pyramid of Cheops had been rescued with two piastres, the then Egyptian currency.This information was documented in archive paperwork kept in Revolution Museum [...]

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/780/eg3.htm  A week-long symposium on Christianity and monasticism opens today at Sohag’s White Monastery: "Sohag has two monasteries, popularly known as the White and the Red, in reference to their construction in limestone and red brick respectively, and both are associated with St Shenoute, a local saint born in a village near Akhmim in the [...]

http://tinyurl.com/exuhu (Emory Wheel) "The Michael C. Carlos Museum unveiled nearly 150 exquisite new pieces in the exhibition From Pharaohs to Emperors on Jan. 14. From one of the most stunning Roman busts in the world, to a Theban noblewoman’s papyrus scroll that describes the underworld, to Egyptian pieces from everyday royal life, these objects represent [...]

http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=3090692 "One of the goddess statues is made of granite, the other diorite, while the head is granite.The lower legs of one of the goddess statues were broken off, while only the upper body of the other was discovered. War goddess Sekhmet embodied the cruel powers of the sun, and was also responsible for both [...]

http://tinyurl.com/c52v9 (Monsters and Critics) "A German archaeological mission stumbled on a mystery with the discovery of three partial Pharaonic statues in Luxor, Egyptian officials announced Monday, because one appears to date to a later period than most previous finds at the site. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced Monday the discovery of two statues [...]

http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=8282 "One interesting point is the straightforward debunking of the entire ‘curse’ story, which basically gets appropriately short shrift. The one point that may cause some viewers discomfort are rare shots of the unwrapped mummy itself, which had been dismembered by Carter in order to remove it from its coffin. The film winds up with [...]

http://tinyurl.com/buzp7 The Indianapolis Museum of Art is re-opening on the 5th February 2006, following the completion of a $74 million expansion project: "With works ranging from ancient Egyptian sculpture to contemporary paintings, the African Gallery encompasses more than 100 cultures and time periods. . . . One thing that sets the IMA’s displays apart is [...]

http://tinyurl.com/dbvs8 (Egyptian State Information Service) "Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni has approved carrying out an urgent project to renovate and develop the biggest tomb at the Luxor Pharaonic cemetery in Thebes. The project will be implemented in cooperation with the French Strassbourg University and the French Institute for Oriental Studies. Dr. Zahi Hawwas, Secretary-General of [...]

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/  Zahi Hawass’s occasional comment on the Egyptian Gazette website, reproduced here in full: "As we continued to excavate Tomb 26, we found the most beautiful female mummy. She wore a gilded gypsum mask, and a band of yellow and red flowers crowned by the uraeus (protective cobra) was upon her head. Her eyes were [...]

http://tinyurl.com/cwena (AZ Central)"A trustee of the J. Paul Getty Trust whose donated collection to the museum included a stolen ancient Roman sculpture has resigned, officials said.The board of trustees accepted the resignation Wednesday of wealthy art collector Barbara G. Fleischman, who had been a board member since 2000 . . . . The board thanked [...]