The gilded treasures of King Tutankhamun are on their way back to the United States in what could prove a gold rush for Egypt and big business.

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs starts a 27-month tour of the United States in June 2005 that will mark the first return here in more than two decades of the precious artifacts buried with the mysterious boy king...

[More], Reuters, UK, December 03, 2004.

Reuters via IOL, South Africa, December 04 2004.

Reuters via Yahoo, USA, December 03, 2004.

King Tut is coming back to America. But this time he will cost - so much indeed that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, doyen of US museums which hosted the first Treasures of Tutankhamun show in 1978, is having nothing to do with the follow-up...

[More], The Independent, UK, December 03, 2004.

The famous Story of Sinuhe is regarded as the most accomplished piece of prose literature to have survived from Ancient Egypt. Jill Kamil talks to a Czech scholar who has brought its male protagonist to life.

[More], Al-Ahram, Egypt, No. 719, December 02 - 08, 2004.

By Zahi Hawass.

When the Egyptian delegation travelled to France on the occasion of the Ninth Congress of Egyptology in Grenoble, we were able to visit the house where the great Jean-François Champollion lived. Together with my colleagues in the delegation, who included my friend Ali Radwan, I wandered through his house, from his living room to his bedroom, until I reached his desk, where I stopped and stared in awe. I looked around the office he used while studying Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and reflected on this great man's life...

[More], Al-Ahram, Egypt, No. 719, December 02 - 08, 2004.

A whole host of Tutankahmun exhibition stories after yesterday's New York Times article.

"King Tut" Treasure to Return to U.S. in 2005, National Geographic, December 01, 2004.

King Tut, Set for 2nd U.S. Tour, Has New Decree: Money Rules, New York Times, USA, December 02, 2004.

Tut items coming to South Florida next year, Palm Beach Post, Florida, USA, December 02, 2004.

King Tut artifacts coming to S. Florida, Miami Herald, Florida, December 02, 2004.

Several articles from the Associated Press

Tri-Valley Herald, USA, December 02, 2004.

San Mateo County Times, USA, December 02, 2004.

The Desert Sun, California, USA, December 02, 2004.

North County Times, California, USA, December 01, 2004.

Union Tribune, California, December 01, 2004.

Egypt and Japan Monday signed an agreement whereby Tokyo offers a 261-million-yen ($102 million) grant to develop the area near the Valley of Kings in Luxor, Upper Egypt.

The agreement was co-inked by Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmoud Karem and Japanese Ambassador in Cairo, Kunihiko Makita...

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, November 30, 2004.

For the first time since 1979, the treasures of the legendary Egyptian boy king, Tutankhamen, will tour the United States next year, but will bypass the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York because of a disagreement, Egypt's chief archaeologist said Tuesday.

Zahi Hawass, the head of Egyptian antiquities, said the exhibit, which is now touring Europe, would open in June at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and go on to at least three other American cities...

[More], New York Times, USA, December 01, 2004.

The exhibition website can be found here.