AFP
Here is another version of yesterday’s story - thanks to Thierry Benderitter for fowarding it to me. This is a truly exciting discovery which may answer many unresolved questions about the Faiyum Neolithic.

A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years […]

Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
At Karnak a new Ptolemaic bath house has been discovered. Jane says that there will be a lecture about it at the Mummification Museum in the next few weeks, so hopefully she will be able to report on it for us.
Jane has also reported that the restoration work at the Temple […]

Times Online (Dalya Alberge)
OK, so this is all the way over the other side of the Sahara, but it makes me so cross. And it is exactly the type of problem that rock art all over the Sahara, including Egyptian rock art, is being subjected to. Just look at the photographs.
Spectacular prehistoric depictions of animal […]

Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Peter Hunt, University of Colorado, Boulder)

Kurt A. Raaflaub (ed.), War and Peace in the Ancient World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

This book has one chapter dedicated to ancient Egypt:

Lanny Bell’s chapter on “Conflict and reconciliation in the ancient Middle East: the clash of Egyptian and Hittite chariots in […]

Brunei Online

The Sarawak Cat Museum in Kuching is the world’s first cat museum, with more than 2,000 feline exhibits collected and donated from all over the world. It is also a research centre that documents the history of cats and the legends and beliefs that surround them. Laboratory assistant Anne Ganyang is seen showing […]

I have been asked to find out which pyramids at Giza are open in 2008.
If anyone has visited Egypt recently, could you let me know which of the pyramids are open for a visit into the interiors?
Or if you have any information about which ones are planned to be open/closed later this year I would […]

Egypt State Information Service

Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme council of Antiquities(ESCA) Zahi Hawwas slammed statements by British Professor Barry Kemp and Professor Jerry Rose, of the University of Arkansas, USA, distorting the history of pharaonic King Akhenaten and the construction of his city in Amarna. . . .

Hawwas termed as nonsense the statements on Akhenaten […]

Egypt State Information Service

Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme council of Antiquities(ESCA) Zahi Hawwas slammed statements by British Professor Barry Kemp and Professor Jerry Rose, of the University of Arkansas, USA, distorting the history of pharaonic King Akhenaten and the construction of his city in Amarna. . . .

Hawwas termed as nonsense the statements on Akhenaten […]

Russia I.C.

The Egyptologist Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences is planning to bring the exhibition of finds made by Russian archeologists in the course of diggings in Luxore (the ancient Phoebe).
The exhibition “Crypt of Royal Mummies: Life and Death of Great Pharaohs” is expected to present sculptures of the pharaohs Ramesses II the […]

National Geographic
Video report about the ownership of treasures, with brief contributions from many experts (including Hawass). Only two and a half minutes long, but well worth watching because of the important issues that it highlights.

For centuries, treasures have been taken from their homelands. Should the artifacts go back? Who should decide?