http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/788/hr1.htm

Al Ahram Weekly is featuring the risk to one of Egypt’s ancient stone quarrying areas (one of two such quarries known from the Faiyum Depression) which also contains the world’s oldest known road and the quarrymen’s village: "The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), in response to a request to draw up […]

http://tinyurl.com/qafr6

The discovery of a 34 metre "hall" located in a rock cut tomb near Luxor has been announced by the SCA: "The Egyptian-Spanish team discovered the hall at Zira Abu al-Naga on the west bank of the Nile, as it was excavating the tomb site, the secretary general of the Supreme […]

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An update re the Ajax Palace, from a press report by archaeologist Yiannis Lolos who found the site while hiking on the island of Salamis in 1999, and has excavated there for the last six years, with a little more about the Ramesses II stamp: "Lolos is particularly pleased with a piece of a […]

http://tinyurl.com/koomq (New York Times)

After a whole spate of articles about antiquities and the role of museums in establishing provenance, things have died down a little, but here’s an interview on the subject from the New York Times: "On March 6, at the New School in New York, Michael Kimmelman, The Times’s chief […]

http://tinyurl.com/gtplp (ocregister.com)

An article about exhibit designer Paul Johnson, who designs and puts together exhibitions at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana, California: "The 4,000-pound stone sarcophagus lid from Egypt was one of Paul Johnson’s recent challenges. He’s the longtime director of exhibit design and fabrication at the Bowers […]

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/788/hr2.htm

The occasional "Dig Days" column on the Al Ahram Weekly website by Zahi Hawass this week features his meetings with, and impressions of his friend and colleague Refaat Rozeik: "Several years ago I went to the Egyptian Museum and met its then director, Mamdouh El-Damati. I met a man in his […]

http://tinyurl.com/hockb (learn.columbia.edu)

The Roman period site of Amheida lies to the south of the modern Dakhleh Oasis town of El Qasr. Poart of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, the work at Amheida is carried out by Columbia University. After preliminary surveys in 2001 and 2002, excavations began in 2004 and 2005, when three main […]

http://tinyurl.com/lulxc (smh.com.au)

A short article about routine maintenance leading to CT scans on the prize piece in the Australian Museum’s Egytpolgoy collection - a mummy donated to the museum over a century ago. Although the images on the front of the mummy depict a female, a previous X-ray had suggested that the remains […]

http://tinyurl.com/rabw4 (TravelBite.co.uk)

"The Egyptian tourist board has launched its new website to show-off the many attractions the north African country has to offer. Visitors to the new site will be able to gather information on Egypt, such as its ancient structures, beaches and holiday resorts, before going on or booking their holiday. […]

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"The St Louis Mask issue is still alive and in dispute: " Egypt threatened Tuesday to take legal action against a US museum unless it returns an ancient mask in its collection that the authorities claim was stolen from a warehouse years ago.The St Louis Art Museum has a week to […]