Infant coffin photos

http://www.kv-63.com/index.html
The KV63 website has been updated with a “Breaking News” piece showing photos of a 42cm long infant coffin made of pink gold-leaf and found in the youth coffin. This is the best source of photos for the find, but there are a couple more details covering it in the following press release:
http://tinyurl.com/lkl4c […]

http://www.time.com/time/2006/egypt/index.html

Thanks to David Meadows for his Explorator newsletter, which this week provided the above link to a collection of Time Magazine’s most recently covered features. Entitled “World of the Pharaohs” it also features some of their archived Egyptology articles.
The Time Magazine page, above, also contains a link to the Discovery Channel’s […]

http://www.palarch.nl/

PalArch’s Journal on the archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology (ISSN 1567-214X) will see some important changes. The October issue of the Newsletter will present the new procedures, and more information on the changes will be published in the July and October 2006 Newsletters. Some of the changes are summarized below.
1) From now […]

http://tinyurl.com/o5jkz (pensacolanewsjournal.com)

I am sure that most readers have seen all the articles about the mummy Nesperennub, but for anyone new visitors, there’s a summary of the Mummy: The Inside Story exhibition currently hosted at the Exploreum in Mobile (U.S.): “See the dates on the displays and you might wonder how many […]

http://tinyurl.com/nq3p9 (usatoday.com)

The USA Today website is featuring an article fromthe latest edition of the Journal of Archaeological Science (volume 33, issue : “King Tut’s most elaborate grave goods are on a nationwide tour, currently at Chicago’s Field Museum until next year. Not on the tour are 26 two-handle wine amphorae […]

www.toutankhamon-magazine.com

Thanks to Francois Tonic for the information that the most recent issue of Toutankhamon Magazine is now avaible (French only). The contents are as follows:
Biographie:
Les grandes reines de l’Égypte ancienne
Sésostris III, le pharaon par excellence
Égyptologie:
Introduction à l’écriture méroïtique par Claude Rilly (chargé de recherches au CNRS)
L’hémi-spéos de Derr par Benoît […]

http://www.kv-63.com/index.html

I don’t know how I came to miss this, because I check the site every morning, but there is a posting dated 23rd May on the KV63 website which I haven’t previously picked up on. Details include more information about the contents of some of the coffins: ” Coffin G, the youth […]

http://touregypt.net/teblog/alexandrianews/

Travel guide Zahraa Adel Awed has updated his Alexandria News blog with a short introduction to the catacombs, and has provided links to a three part article about them which have some excellent plans, diagrams and photographs: “The catacombs of Kom El-Shuqafa which date from the second century A.D. are unique […]

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/796/fr2.htm

“On Friday 25 August, at 6am, when Cairo traffic is at its quietest, the colossus of the 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramses II will begin its journey from outside Bab Al-Hadid train station to its new home at the site of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) overlooking the Giza Plateau. The decision was […]

http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=223
Jane Akshar has been talking to Nigel Hetherington about plans for the Valley of the Kings, including the new visitor centre, which is nearing completion, and improved road and transportation facilities. See the posting on Janes Luxor News Blog, above, for more, and don’t forget to page down to see the […]