http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=416
Jane Akshar has been documenting the continued degradation of some parts of the Temple of Seti I, and today has posted images of the latest bad news - a piece of decoration has crumbled away and now lies in pieces at the foot of the monument. See her page, above, for the […]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070129100250.htm

A spell written in hieroglyphs, but spelling out words in Semitic, is shown on this page, together with another summary of Professor Steiner’s work. “Although written in Egyptian characters, the texts turned out to be composed in the Semitic language spoken by the Canaanites in the third millennium B.C.E., a very […]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6314481.stm
“French customs officials say they have seized more than 650 ancient artefacts smuggled from Mali in one of the largest such finds at a Paris airport. Described as an ‘archaeological treasure’, the objects were thought to be on their way to private US buyers.
Experts say most of the items are from […]

Mummification Museum Lecture - Fragments from KV17 - Dr Florance Mauric-Barberio
More thanks to Jane Akshar for her regular note-taking at the Mummification Museum in Luxor. This week she has posted her notes for a lecture by Dr Florance Mauric-Barberio on the subject of painted fragments found in tomb KV17, the remarkable […]

http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html
A quick reminder that the 2007 Dig Diary of the John Hopkins University team working at Luxor has been updated (up until the 27th January so far) at the above address.

Mummification Museum Lecture
Tomb 34, Monthemhat No 34 by Dr Farouk Goman
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=408
Jane’s notes on the latest lecture are on her blog at the above address: “The tomb of Monthemhat no TT34, is one of the great tombs in the part of the necropolis of Thebes, which is known under the name el-Assasif near […]

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4482/EEFNEWS.html
Don’t forget that last week’s EEF News Digest is online at the above address, for all the latest information about exhibitions, conferences, lectures and new online and print publications, grants awards and fellowships, new websites, courses and trips, plus a round up of last week’s main news items.

http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=816
A long and detailed article about the restoration of the 5000 year old site Shunet el-Zebib at Abydos. The article looks at the nature of the problems experienced by the site, introduces the project team, the work they are carrying out, how the work is funded, and describes the history of the […]

http://tinyurl.com/2kcmny (sis.gov.eg)
A much more detailed account than usual, on the State Information Service website, about the ongoing excavations at the Pharaonic port of Marsa Gawasis in Safaga:
“Late December last year, after more than three metres of sand had been removed from the slope of the coral reef, the entrance of a large […]

http://griffith.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/gri/4.html
http://griffith.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/gri/4paser.html (Paser)
http://griffith.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/gri/4sethos.html (Sethos)
Keeper of the Griffith Institute Archive, Jaromir Malek, has announced that another batch of paper impressions has been made available on the Griffith Institute’s website. They are impressions from Theban tomb TT 106 (Paser, of the reigns of Sethos I and Ramesses II) and from the Valley of […]