http://www.valleyofthekings.org/vofk/default.htm
Thanks very much indeed to the nameless hero who emailed me the following piece of breaking news, which has been unfolding on the Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) website. Dr Nick Reeves, who updated the site earlier in the year with some contextualization re the discovery of KV63, has announced the […]

http://tinyurl.com/kmkhu (mailonsunday.co.uk)
The mummy of a small child originally found in Hawara by Flinders Petrie has been CT scanned by the MRI unit of the John Radcliffe Hosptial in Oxford: “Doctors carried out the scan on behalf of the nearby Ashmolean Museum in an attempt to discover what lay beneath the mummy’s […]

http://tinyurl.com/empxg (news.pajamasmedia.com)
“She has emotion, character, serenity. And though she’s but a plaster reconstruction, she’s far more personable than her namesake whose mummified remains lie upstairs in the Reading Public Museum. Nefrina the mummy was a woman who lived about 2,300 years ago in the Nile River city of Ahkmim. The museum […]

http://www.tt320.org/
Thanks very much to Jane Akshar’s Luxor News blog for the information that TT320 has a dedicated website, at the above address. Additional information about the site, including some season summaries in English, can be found at:
http://cesras.ru/eng/arch/tt320/rep.htm

http://tinyurl.com/g6mej (calendarlive.com)
“Italian authorities say Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, one of several major U.S. museums accused of harboring looted artifacts from Italy, has agreed on the outline of a deal to return multiple items.In a joint statement, MFA Director Malcolm Rogers and Italian officials stopped short of claiming a complete agreement […]

http://www.archaeolog.org/
Not relevant to many visitors, the above blog may nevertheless be of interest to some. The archaeolog blog has been launched with the following mission statment: “Archaeolog is a collective weblog dealing in all things archaeological. It is open to the wider archaeological community and cognate fields from academics to field […]

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=16790
“A replica of the statue of Ramses II, weighing 83 tons, went through its last “rehearsal” to substitute the original before it is moved to the new egyptian museum. The gigantic replica, 11.5 meters high, was transported from the centric plaza of Tahir to the new Great Egyptian Museum, near the […]

http://tinyurl.com/qcsdu (dcmilitary.com)
“Great Ancient Battles of the World, taught by Professor Garrett Fagan of Pennsylvania State University. Part of the Great Courses series on CD - Those who make the military a career cannot escape studying, reading and listening about combat, warfare, tactics and strategy. Whether you make your career in the […]

http://www.aegyptologie.uni-goettingen.de/GM/en/gm.htm
The latest issue of GM has been released - see the above site for more details. The Contents are as follows (thanks to EEF for this information):
Contents:
- Hein, K.: Der pavian im Boot: ein Deutungsversuch p. 5
- Becker, M.: Djefai-Hapi - ein Name mit langer Tradition? p. 7
- Castillos, J.-J.: Social […]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1699645.htm
“Archaeologists who measured the Egyptian pyramids at Giza more than 100 years ago were surprisingly accurate, a review of historical surveys has shown. The paper, posted online by the Queensland University of Technology, reviews the major surveying projects of the pyramids Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus, built around 2600 BC, south of […]