Robert Connolly, Senior Lecturer in Physical Anthropology from the University's Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, is working with the Egyptian authorities to analyse recent findings from a CT scan of the mummy and has been asked to comment on suggestions by scientists that Tutankhamen died as a result of an infection following an injury to the femur bone.

Mr Connolly has re-analysed the original X-rays of the leg taken by Professor Ronald Harrison in 1968 and has found no evidence, such as the involvement of soft tissue, to suggest that the fracture in the femur bone became infected...

[More]   EurekAlert, USA, 10-Mar-2005.

A delegation from Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities arrived in London Wednesday to receive eight ancient Egyptian antiques, which were recovered from an auction hall in Britain after they were posted on an Internet website in preparation for selling them.

Egypt's ambassador to Britain Jihad Madi said that the antiques were stolen from the museum of the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, in 2002 and smuggled abroad...

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, March 10, 2005.

It looks like it's going to take a little bit longer than expected to move the gigantic red granite statue of Ramses II from its current location in Cairo's busiest square.

Early Monday, at the Culture Ministry's Zamalek headquarters, hundreds of Egyptian and international photographers and journalists crowded around a small model of the Ramses II statue that stands in the downtown square that bears its name, reports Nevine El-Aref.   The model was loaded onto two vehicles, custom-made to carry the 83-tonne statue from in front of Cairo's central railway station to its new home near the Grand Egyptian Museum being planned for the Giza Plateau.

Culture Minister Farouk Hosni told reporters that a real life trial move would take place in the next two months.   A copy of the statue -- formed to its exact weight and shape -- would be used to test the stability and power of the vehicles meant to transport it.   The replica would even take the "deteriorating parts of the real statue into account," Hosni said...

[More]   Al-Ahram, Egypt, Issue No. 733, 10 - 16 March 2005.

After studying a comprehensive CT-scan of Tutankhamun's mummy, scientists discounted a century-old idea that the boy king died after being hit on the back of the head. Nevine El-Aref reports.

The 3,300-year-old mummy of Tutankhamun underwent a CT-scan in January; ever since then, Egyptology enthusiasts everywhere have been eagerly awaiting the results.   Would the scan help to uncover the secret behind the boy king's early death?

In a small, dimly lit room in the basement of the Egyptian Museum, a group of Egyptologists, radiologists, anatomists, pathologists and forensic experts examined the 1,700 CT-scan images of Tutankhamun's mummy that were taken in Luxor.   After weeks of thorough discussions, the group unanimously agreed that the young king, who died at age 19, was not killed after being hit on the back of his head, as was traditionally believed...

[More]   Al-Ahram, Egypt, Issue No. 733, 10 - 16 March 2005.