Groundbreaking CT scans of the celebrated pharaoh King Tut will be displayed in the National Geographic exhibition "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," scheduled to begin a four-city, 27-month tour of the United States on June 16, 2005, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Tickets for the exhibition will be on sale to the public March 3 through the end of the exhibit's stay in Los Angeles on Nov. 15, 2005.   The tour is organized by National Geographic, AEG Exhibitions and Arts and Exhibitions International, with cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Tickets for the three other tour cities, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (opens December 2005); The Field Museum, Chicago (opens May 2006) and The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (opens February 2007) go on sale in the coming months...

[More]   PRNewswire via Yahoo!, March 1, 2005.

cf. Official Exhibition Website

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Naguib Kanawati is "over the moon" after discovering three perfectly preserved Egyptian mummies in an ancient cemetery near Cairo.

The remains, estimated to be about 2600 years old, date back to Egypt's 26th Dynasty.

The mummies — two men and a woman — were decorated with exquisite bead netting and placed inside human-shaped coffins carved from Lebanese cedar.

"(The find) will be an incredible addition to our knowledge," said Professor Kanawati, an Egyptologist based at Macquarie University in Sydney...

[More]   The Australian, Australia, March 04, 2005.

cf. The Australian Centre for Egyptology, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia

After the flurry of Associated Press (AP) and Australian Associated Press (AAP) copy, Reuters have finally got in on the act.

Australian archaeologists have discovered a tomb thought to belong to the tutor of the Pharaoh Pepi I, who ruled Egypt more than 4,200 years ago, the Egyptian government's chief archaeologist said on Thursday.

The archaeologists found the tomb last month alongside one containing three coffins from a much later period, Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council for Antiquities, told Reuters...

[More]   Reuters, UK, Mar 3, 2005.

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered what is believed to be one of the world's best-preserved mummies.

Dating from 500 BC, the mummy was among three found near the Saqqara pyramids, just south of Cairo.   Vanessa Heaney reports.

[Video]   BBC News, UK, 03/03/2005.

Hidden in a sprawling tomb behind a pair of ancient statues in the capital of ancient Egypt, a team of Australian archaeologists has found one of the best-preserved mummies, reports Anne Penketh.

The green eyes stare out unblinkingly from the beaded mask. The woman's dark eyebrows and terracotta face look as fresh as they ever did.

Yet the figure covered in turquoise beads and swaddled in black linen, nestling in a wooden sarcophagus, is believed to be 2,500 years old.

Egypt's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, yesterday proudly unveiled what he described as probably one of the best-preserved mummies ever...

[More]   The Independent, UK, 03 March 2005.

Also Australian archaeologists impress with mummy find, ABC News, Australia, March 3, 2005.

More on the examination of a mummy by Manchester University.   See also my previous post here.

The secrets of a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy are about to be revealed, thanks to experts at The University of Manchester.

Researchers in the Centre for Biomedical Egyptology were approached by a school in East Sussex asking if they could examine the ancient remains...

[More]   ScienceDaily, USA, 2005-03-01.