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He was probably a redhead, tall and in good shape when he died of an unidentified cause by age 30. That’s according to researchers, who used X-rays and a computerized topography scan to learn more about the 2,300-year-old mummy housed at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. The release of their […]

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/gregory/ancsci-07.htm
Just in case this isn’t picked up by any of the Egyptology lists and groups specializing in conferences etc, here’s one that may be of interest (see the above page for more details):
The third one day London Ancient Science Conference will take place on Saturday 3rd November 2007, in the Gustav Tuck […]

Out of Print book search
As frequent visitors will know, I haven’t been doing much web surfing recently so this is a special version to address one particular problem - finding unusual or out of print books. I have been using all of these companies to find books that I cannot possibly live […]

Discovery Channel (Rossella Lorenzi)
There is a photograph accompanying this two-page article:

Throwing stone balls along a lane might have been a popular game in ancient Egypt, according to evidence unearthed some 56 miles south of Cairo by Italian archaeologists. A mixture of bowling, billiard and bowls, the game was played at […]

EUX.tv

Wrinkles improved the face of Nefertiti, the pharaonic Egyptian queen acclaimed as the world’s most beautiful woman, German scientists have discovered. The 3,000-year-old bust of Nefertiti is the greatest treasure at Berlin’s Altes Museum. X-ray pictures of the bust by a computer tomography machine at the nearby Charite Hospital in Berlin […]

Egyptology Resources
Egyptologist Nigel Strudwick has created a new Personal Egypt Resources page on his Egyptology Resources website to list web log and photo sharing addresses with Egyptological themes. If you know of any that may be of interest to him, he can be reached via the above website.

Sussex Egyptology Society Activities

This is a ruthless plug for my very deserving friends at Sussex Egyptology Society (U.K.), some of whom were at Bloomsbury this month.

A special SES 10th Anniversary Party will be held at The Pavilion, Field Place, Worthing, on the afternoon of Sunday August 6, 2006, in the […]

BBC News
This BBC news item is accompanied by a photograph of the prosthetic toe under discussion.

An artificial big toe found on the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy could be the world’s earliest functional fake body part, UK experts believe. A Manchester University team hope to prove that the leather and wood […]

International Herald Tribune (Associated Press)

The discoveries, reported in the August issue of GSA Today, the journal of the Geological Society of America, came by accident when his team drilled underwater in Alexandria’s harbor, Stanley said.
Their project was part of a 2007 Smithsonian-funded study of the subsiding Nile Delta and involved […]

Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
An account of the visit by the Culture Minister Farouk Hosni to the site of the future Grand Egyptian Museum, plus a description of how the museum will fit into the landscape and what its internal plan will be like.

Yasser Mansour, the project coordinator, described the GEM as […]