http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051226/drunkegypt_arc.html  
"Many ancient Egyptians marked the first month of the New Year by singing, dancing and drinking red beer until they passed out, according to archaeologists who have unearthed new evidence of a ritual known as the Festival of Drunkenness. During ongoing excavations at a temple precinct in Luxor that is dedicated to the goddess […]

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/775/eg20.htm
Following the elections, President Hosni Mubarak ordered Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif to form a new cabinet. The reshuffle leaves the Minister for Culture (and minister responsible for the Supreme Council of Antiquities), Farouk Hosni, in his role: " Speaking to Al-Ahram Weekly’s Nevine El-Aref yesterday, Hosni said that although he had publicly expressed disinterest […]

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/775/tr4.htm
Travel article about a Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan: " It was a delightful trip of discovery which every Egyptian, apart from foreign tourists, should experience. One thing I noticed, which I describe as Nile ethics. It seems that the river sets its rules of conduct, based on cooperation and mutual respect. I […]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/790978.stm  
Only a small chunk of Egyptology, but to celebrate the New Year, here’s a chronology of Egypt from 7000BC to the present day:
"circa 7,000 BC - Settlement of Nile Valley begins. Egypt’s pyramids served as tombs for her dead kings
circa 3,000 BC - Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt unite. Successive dynasties […]

http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=13273
"The American Professor William Y. Adams, a well-celebrated cultural anthropologist, archeologist, ethnologist, and historian was presented the Order of the Two Niles medal by the President of Sudan at the Republican Palace, Khartoum. Earlier in the 1950s, Adams led the salvation of many archeological sites that had been threatened by inundation of the Glen […]

http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2006/01jan/whale_valley.cfm
An article about the Eocene 406 whale fossils preserved in the Faiyum Depression at Wadi Hitan (Whale Valley), an area recently designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO: "The great expanse was then dotted with lush estuaries, home to Basilosaurus whales that gathered annually to give birth in the protection of a sea channel. […]

http://minervamagazine.com/issue1701/index.html
Minerva is featuring a couple of Egypt-related articles this month (Janiary/February 2006, Volume 17, No.1), including From Pharaohs to Emperors: Egyptian, Near Eastern & Classical Antiquities at Emory by Peter Lacovara and Jasper Gaunt, and Egypt, Greece, Rome: Rejection & Contact by Beatrix Gessler-Löhr.
For the full contents listing see the above URL.

http://tinyurl.com/a7tqr (Sun Sentinel)

Travel piece mainly about visiting the Valley of the Kings and the Giza pyramids: "Egyptologists and other would-be experts are waving the tourist crowds away from Tutankhamun’s tomb, describing it as an extra-cost disappointment. And sure enough, if this were Palm Beach, it would be like paying a $20 […]

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/atoz/article_916727.php

A new book about Georg Gerster’s aerial photography has been published. Although Gester’s work is global, he started out in Egypt and Nubia: "In Gerster’s recent book, The Past From Above: Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites (J. Paul Getty Museum), places we’ve seen a thousand times in pictures from ground level […]

http://tinyurl.com/atauk (The Age)

A plan by Malaysia to raise its profile globally has been rejected by the Supreme Council of Antiquities: "Malaysian authorities suffered a setback today in their plan to send a 35-member team to drape Egypt’s Great Pyramid at Giza with the flags of the world’s 57 Muslim countries. The […]