Tutankhamun's CT scan report is now available on one of Zahi Hawass' websites and can be found here...   Press Release: Tutankhamun CT Scan, 8 MARCH, 2005.

Thanks to Katherine Griffis-Greenberg at the Forum of Amun for bringing this to my attention.

More on the Tutankhamun CT scan results, after yesterday's midday announcements and the flurry of internet publications, some of today's paper-based publications have caught up.

King Tut deposed by broken leg

Theories that Egypt's boy king was a victim of murder have been challenged by new research.

The hunt for the murderer of King Tutankhamun appeared to be over yesterday as medical tests showed that he was likely to have died after an accident...

[More]   The Times, UK, March 09, 2005.

King Tut's broken leg may have killed him, scan reveals

The mystery of how Tutankhamun - the boy king of ancient Egypt - died has been partly solved.   He was not murdered but he had a broken leg that could have killed him...

[More]   The Independent, UK, 09 March 2005.

Scan reveals King Tut's mysterious injury

The results of a CT scan done on King Tutankhamun's mummy indicate the boy king was not murdered, but may have suffered a badly broken leg shortly before his death at age 19 - a wound that could have become infected, Egypt's top archaeologist said today...

[More]   The Guardian, UK, March 8, 2005.

Siwa has been popular place since Alexander the Great sought oracle.

In 331 B.C., a young Alexander the Great led a small group for eight days through Egypt's Western Desert to a distant oasis, seeking the legendary Temple of Amun in hopes that its powerful oracle would confirm his status as a demigod.   Obligingly, the oracle did so, and Alexander went on to conquer the known world.

Happily for today's adventurous travellers, the trip now takes only about 11 hours by bus from Alexandria -- a trek long by today's standards but relatively reasonable when the modern tourist considers that, according to ancient legend, 50,000 Persian soldiers were swallowed by sandstorms on their way to the same oasis, never to be seen or heard from again...

[More]   Ventura County Star, California, USA, March 6, 2005.

This month's Focus magazine contains an eight-page article of interest to  Egyptophiles.

Archaeologists working in the harbour of Alexandria are recovering artefacts from the times of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra.   Sally Palmer investigates the exiting project to raise Egypt's lost treasures from the deep.

"If you wish to enjoy an unblemished youth," and oracle is once said to have told Alexander the Great, "you must found a glorious city."   Alexander took these words to heart — he founded around seventy cities over his war-and-glory studded life — but the most famous was Alexandria, in Egypt.   Aged just 25, Alexander chose a gridded layout for his city and drew it in flour in a shape that resembled a soldier's tunic.   Construction began on 20 January 331BC, but the city continued to thrive and grow after his death in 323BC.   With its own unique civilisation, it became the fabled intellectual and artistic hub of Ancient Egypt, on a par with that of Greece and Rome...

Focus, UK, #149, April 2005.

Box-outs include a timeline, Surveying the Ocean Floor, Underwater Excavation: How it's Done, Valuable Finds so Far, Portus Magnus, The Lighthouse of Pharos, and Ask the Expert with Franck Goddio.