An article by Dennis Prager about Egypt, death and the Torah.

...Egyptian civilization was steeped in death. Its bible was the Book of the Dead, and its greatest monuments, its very symbols, the pyramids, were gigantic tombs...

[More]   WorldNet Daily, USA, March 29, 2005.

Sohag police found an ancient mummy in the Akhmim District fields yesterday.

The discovery of the mummy came in the aftermath of a report sent to Sohag police that a corpse bas been found buried in a field...

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, March 30, 2005.

Ancient Egyptian mummies on display in museums and stately homes are beginning to offer up their secrets to modern medicine.

Scientists have taken samples of tissue from more than 1,000 mummies to build a medical map revealing the way that disease has evolved over 5,000 years.

Egyptologists at the KNH centre for biomedical Egyptology at Manchester University have been charting the evolution of schistosomiasis, more commonly known as bilharzia, from antiquity to the modern day...

[More] The Times, UK, March 29, 2005.

Also Now, medical check-ups for mummies, The Statesman, India, March 29, 2005.

Nevine El-Aref previews the Egyptian Museum's exhibition highlighting the work of French Egyptologists George Legrain and Jean François Champollion.

Today at sunset Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Secretary-General Zahi Hawass, French Cultural Attaché Denis Louche and senior French and Egyptian officials and archaeologists are schudled to attend the opening of the special exhibition "Champollion, Legrain... Treading the Land of Egypt" at the centennial hall of the Egyptian Museum.

The exhibition has come to Cairo after six months in the capital of the French Alps, Grenoble, where it marked the centenary of Egyptologist George Legrain's famous discovery of the Karnak Cachet.   It also coincides with the ninth International Congress of Egyptologists...

[More]   Al-Ahram, Egypt, Issue No. 735, 24 - 30 March 2005.

An interesting article relating to a new book by Desmond Zwar called "The Queen, Rupert & Me."

The article attributes the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb to a British spy named Richard Adamson, working on Carter's team, rather than Carter himself.

[More]   Middle East Times, Cyprus, March 22, 2005.