There’s not much news today, but I’ve updated two of yesterday’s news items with some more information that has since become available (the disputed re-dating of the eastern Mediterranean, and the Bosnian pyramids).
Cheers
Andie

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/arts/27gett.html
For those of you following the Getty Trial, which has rammifications for the entire archaeological/museum world, the above provides the latest details: "Dozens of documents were dissected in a courtroom here on Wednesday as prosecutors sought to weave the doings of art dealers, collectors and museums into what they argue is […]

http://www.artnewsonline.com/currentarticle.cfm?art_id=2039

An article about Zahi Hawass and his moves to repatriate important Egyptological artefacts: "Hawass’s list of national icons starts with the Nefertiti bust in Berlin and the Rosetta stone (ca. 200 b.c.) in the British Museum in London. Both of these objects left Egypt a long time ago, the Rosetta stone […]

http://tinyurl.com/eukqo (Telegraph.co.uk)

"A burnt olive tree has helped to resolve a controversy over dating key events in the Mediterranean that took place more than three millennia ago. The new dates would change the chronology of the Minoans, Greeks, Cypriots and others by a century, realign history and raise questions about the Egyptian […]

Bosnian Pyramids

Not really trivia, but not very relevant to Egyptology either, so in the absence of any trivia this week, I’ve put the latest news re the Bosnian pyramids (three of them now, suggested by satellite photographs) in the trivia slot. The following links offer some insights into the story. Egyptian […]

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/78324

"The Czech team is one of only a dozen which have been granted permanent status in Egypt. The Abusir excavation site has proved unexpectedly rewarding and Czech archaeologists there have big plans for the future. The head of the team in Abusir professor Miroslav Verner who discovered an unplundered tomb in […]

http://tinyurl.com/lnp67 (CNN)
"Frustrated with the poor quality of many Web sites dealing with ancient Egypt, a professor at the University of California has decided to create an online encyclopedia devoted to Egyptology.
Willemina Wendrich, a professor of Egyptian archaeology, had watched in dismay as the best resource for her subject, a seven-volume encyclopedia […]

http://tinyurl.com/em2jp

"Among the finds are tools, Cypriot pottery and bronzes, proof of relations with the eastern Mediterranean. But the most stunning discovery is a single bronze scale from an armour breastplate that bears the stamp of a famous Egyptian pharaoh. Translated by professors Jacke Phillips and John Ray at Cambridge, it is […]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26491434.htm

"Egypt’s money-spinning tourism industry may take a hit after the bombs in Dahab this week, but tour operators and economists expect the impact to be limited, with the economy now more resilient to shocks. Nearly a decade ago, when gunmen killed 60 tourists as they visited the ruins at Luxor, tourism […]

http://www.informath.org/BiOr04i.pdf

Thanks very much to Doug Keenan for the information that the following book review by Manfred Bietak, which pulls no punches, is available online at the above address:
Bietak, Manfred (2004), "Review: S.W. Manning–A Test of Time (Oxbow, 1999)", Bibliotheca Orientalis 61: 199-222. (January - April 2004).