Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni agreed to the establishment of a laboratory Museum to renovate a number of papyri at the Egyptian museum with total cost of 2 million euros earmarked by an Italian university.

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities said that the project will be the biggest in the Middle East.

[Source], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, March 27, 2005.

On April 7, 2005 at 11 a.m. at the Bowers Museum, a team of radiologists and curators will conduct computed tomography (CT) scans of six ancient Egyptian mummies from the renowned collections of the British Museum.   The mummies are the focus of the Bowers’ upcoming landmark exhibition, Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, which opens April 17, 2005.

This is the largest collection of CT scans ever performed on Egyptian mummies utilizing the newest, state of the art technology.   This historic event, a first in Southern California, will occur in cooperation with the British Museum; Moran, Rowen & Dorsey, Inc. (MRD), a radiology group that provides cutting edge diagnostic medical imaging in Orange County; General Electric, a leading medical technology company; and Mobile Interim Solutions, an industry leader in boost diagnostic imaging capacity at medical facilities...

[More]   Art Daily, Mexico, March 29, 2005, via Archaeologica.