Fayetteville Observer (Melissa Clement)
I always like to see traveling exhibitions receiving new plaudits. Here’s another enthusiastic reaction to Temples and Tombs. The page is taking quite a long time to load, but it gets there in the end. There’s a rather nice photo of the statue of Nekhthorheb, kneeling. The […]

Dallas News (Peter Neville-Hadley)

If it’s well known that Philadelphia is Greek for “brotherly love,” it’s perhaps not yet common knowledge that Tutankhamun is Egyptian for “big business.” But Philadelphians certainly know this. Such is their brotherly love for the renowned boy king who took the throne of Egypt in 1332 B.C. […]

Jordan News Agency

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Osama Al Dabbas today met with the Egyptian Tourist delegation, currently on a visit to Jordan to explore the Jordanian experiment in the tourism domain.During the meeting, Dabbas highlighted the importance of bilateral tourism and exchanging expertise in the fields of running and […]

AmeInfo.com
Just in case it is of any interest to visitors to Egypt:

EgyptAir subsidiary EgyptAir Express has begun a domestic service from Cairo to Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada using three new Embraer 170 jets, reported the Al Ahram Weekly. The new carrier will expand this to Luxor, Borg El Arab and […]

Bolton Museums
For nearly a century an ancient Egyptian mystery has lain unsolved, but now the answer can at last be revealed.
Recently, staff at Bolton Museum have been attempting to identify a mystery bone that came out of bundles of Egyptian linen from Qau el-Kabir. For 83 years the identity of the […]

http://www.culturalproperty.org/forum/index.php
A new cultural heritage forum has been formed by to support the International Journal of Cultural Property (Cambridge University Press). The Discussion forums of the International Cultural Property Society has been set up as a source of cultural heritage news and events information, as well as a place in which to […]

Daily Star
As usual with the Daily Star, if you are using Firefox as a browser I recommend that you switch briefly to Explorer instead.

Considered an extinct language, the Coptic language is believed to exist only in the liturgical language of the Coptic Church in Egypt. The ancient language that lost in […]

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.06.37
Christina Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 334 . ISBN 978-0-19-927665-3. $150.00. Reviewed by David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire (davidTf@unh.edu)

How Egyptian was Roman Egypt? The question has dominated quarters of Classics, Art […]

http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/
I could have sworn that I had posted the details of the Summer edition of KMT, but I cannot find them so here goes (possibly again). Thanks to EEF for the memory jobg

NEFER: The Woman in Ancient Egypt’ by Lucy Gordan-Rastelli Blockbuster Show in Milan &Turin

125 & STILL COUNTING by Aiden […]

Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy - A beginner’s guide to writing hierogplyphs http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/fischer_eg_calligraphy.pdf
Lovely book, in PDF format, which gives you detailed guidelines on how to draw each hieroglyph, stroke by stroke. Wonderful for those who are calligraphilcally-challenged! It is a large document and it takes time for the page it load.

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