An archaeological team is to head for London tomorrow to restore eight artifacts dating back to pre-history ages.

"The pieces of antiquities were stolen many years ago from the storeroom of Faculty of Arts in Cairo University, then smuggled abroad," said Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. The council succeeded in preventing selling the artifacts in public auction in Britain, added Hawass, noting that the pieces have been handed to Egyptian embassy.

[Source], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, March 07,2005.

The Egyptian government Monday unveiled plans for the delicate task of moving a granite statue of the Pharaoh Ramses II, 3,200 years old and weighing 83 tons, from central Cairo to a new site near the Pyramids.

The statue has stood in a square outside Cairo's main railway station for 50 years but with the growth of the city the square has become increasingly noisy and polluted...

[More]   Reuters, UK, Mar 7, 2005.

Also Egypt Unveils Plans to Move Ramses Statue, Reuters via Yahoo! News, USA, Mar 7, 2005.

Archaeology Magazine's Mark Rose reviews a couple of Hieroglyphic textbooks.

"Put writing in your heart, that you may protect yourself from hard labor of any kind and be a magistrate of high repute."   There you have it, advice from a 19th Dynasty (1298-1187 B.C.) inscription: Learn your hieroglyphs and you'll be on easy street.   But just how easy is it? Perhaps the ancient Egyptian texts that warn young scribes not to yield to the temptations of beer or women -- or even, indeed, "working in the field" -- give a clue...

[More]   Archaeology Magazine, USA, Volume 58 Number 2, March/April 2005.