On Thursday, [Neter] Heneb's coffin lid will go on display as the newest acquisition in the Egyptian collection of the Robert V. Fullerton Museum at Cal State San Bernardino.   It provides an opportunity for local residents to get a head start on a year that features a series of high-profile Egyptian exhibits in Southern California, highlighted by this summer's the traveling King Tut exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

[More]   The Press-Enterprise, California, USA, February 10, 2005.

Ben-Jochannan, 86, is an Egyptologist who has dedicated his life to documenting black history and the African contribution to the birth of civilization.

A retired Cornell University professor, he has visited Egypt an astounding 55 times and has written over 40 books on Egypt and the ancient world along the Nile Valley.

He provides an aggressive counterpoint to a Eurocentric view of history.   Ben-Jochannan has long championed the role of ancient Africans in history and culture...

[More]   New York Daily News, New York USA, February 13, 2005.

An article about someone who has built their own temple of Sekhmet in Nevada ;-)

The goddess Sekhmet is honored in many places throughout Egypt, her country of origin, but there is also a temple dedicated to her located outside Las Vegas, Nevada.   The tiny area known as Cactus Springs is home to the temple of Sekhmet, gifted and built by the vision of a woman named Genevieve Vaughn.

Sekhmet is one of the major Egyptian goddesses, and is depicted with a the head of a lion, and a solar disk and serpent headdress.   Although many accounts list her as sister to Bast, the Egyptians themselves did not categorize her as such.   Sekhmet was a goddess of Upper Egypt and Bast was a similar goddess in Lower Egypt...

[More]   Bella Online, 12/02/2005(?).

I arrive, hot and sticky, at Alexandria's Ramleh Station clutching my guidebook and my illusions.   I lose both in quick succession.   I foolishly left the guidebook at the Athineos Patisserie, a wonderful - if expensive - art deco café with gaping holes in its gilded friezes, a stationary ceiling fan and plenty of noisy locals.

By the time I had walked back to collect it, sea-blown and weary, my glorious preconceptions of Alexandria were as eroded as the city's historic monuments...

[More]   The Scotsman, UK, 12 Feb 2005.