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"More than 600,000 tickets to the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit have been sold since it opened on June 16 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)". For details about ticket availability at LACMA, see the above press release on the Business Wire website.

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Following on from Parts I and II, which I posted about last week, this is the third part of the serialized piece from the Marco Island Sun Times, subtitled The Burial Chamber: "What would they find? The first thing they found, lying beside a small hole in the door made by robbers in ancient […]

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o290825f.htm
"Thousands of Americans booked their tickets for an exhibition of Egyptian treasures in Dayton, Ohio. The number of persons who bought tickets to visit the exhibition The Queen for Immortality stood so far at 25,000. Director of the Modern Art Museum, which hosts the exhibition, expected the number to reach 400,000 by January; adding that […]

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o290825e.htm  
"A team representing Japan’s TV Man channel is currently visiting Egypt to shoot a tourist programme on archaeological sites in Aswan and Saqqara in Giza. Youssef Khaled, representative of the Japanese university of Waseda, said the delegation, which is visiting Aswan at the invitation of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) will shoot the […]

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Yesterday a new exhibition opened at the Hollywood Museum: Egypt in Hollywood: A Retrospective 1898-2005: "Located in the lower level of the historic Max Factor Building, the exhibit presents the largest collection of Egypt-themed props, costumes, jewelry, photographs, and memorabilia ever assembled. Dating from La Fruite en Egypte (France, 1898), the new exhibit is […]

http://www.daytondailynews.com/life/content/life/daily/0829egypt.html
Another article profiling Zahi Hawass, who is lecturing in Dayton on Wednesday and Thursday to two sell-out audiences: "One would not blame you, upon meeting Zahi Hawass, if you thought of Indiana Jones. There’s the outfit — the dusty jeans, the blue work shirt with rolled-up sleeves, the crumpled fedora that is sweat-stained to almost […]

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A chatty description of the San Jose’s Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Planetarium, built by the Rosicrucian Order, which was founded in the 1930s: "a mystical, philosophical organization that traces its roots to ancient Egypt, spearheaded archaeological digs in Egypt during the Depression, paying for expeditions when there was no public sector money available for […]

http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/qtakes/cl-ca-artsnotes28aug28,0,6655175.story 
The Getty Museum, home to a world class collection of art and antiquities, is facing allegations from the Italian government that it obtained items which were looted and smuggled. The article also contains a comment and update on the situaton with Egypt’s claims against the museum. Earlier in the year Zahi Hawass wrote to […]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/travel/12498739.htm 
It definately appears to be museum day today in the world of online Egyptology news. First off, the above feature looks at the city of Turin, which is to be home to the 2006 Winter Olympics in February. As well as all the other attractions that Turin has to offer, the article recommends a visit […]

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Article on today’s edition of the Egyptian Gazette website by Zahi Hawass about investigations of the "air shafts" in the Great Pyramid - nothing new here, but I have added it in case it is of interest. It is copied in its entirety because it will cease to be displayed very quickly, and there is […]