A longer version of the story about ancient wine and beer jars being found at Abydos.

Archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old chamber believed to have been used for the burial rituals of Egypt's first major pharaoh found a cache of 200 rough ceramic beer and wine jars, Egyptian authorities said today.

The mortuary enclosure of King Hor-Aha, the founder of Egypt's First Dynasty, also included a cultic chapel where the floor and benches are stained with organic material – probably the remains of offerings made during rituals, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said.

"It is a very important discovery because it would provide us with new information about the First Dynasty," Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told The Associated Press...

... The beer and wine jars were found in excavations along the walls of the mortuary enclosure of King Khasekhemwy...

Archaeologists Unearth 5,000-Year-Old Jars, PA News via The Scotsman, UK, May 19, 2005.

Archaeologists digging in a 5,000-year-old site in southern Egypt have unearthed 200 rough ceramic beer and wine jars and a second mud-brick mortuary enclosure of King Hor-Aha the founder of the First Dynasty, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said Wednesday.

A joint American excavation mission from Yale University, Institute of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania University Museum and New York Universities found the treasure Wednesday at Shunet El-Zebib, north of Abydos in the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag.

[More]   AP via NewsDay, USA, May 18, 2005.

cf. Ancient Beer, Wine Jars Found in Egypt, AP via ABC News, USA, May 18, 2005.

cf. Ancient Beer, Wine Jars Found in Egypt, AP via The LA Times, California, USA, May 18, 2005.

cf. Ancient Beer, Wine Jars Found in Egypt, AP via The Washington Post, District of Columbia, USA, May 18, 2005.

All versions of the article are Associated Press copy and equally as short or information.

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So is this Tut, Tut?   The method of face-making engenders reasonable doubt.   An Egyptian team created a model skull from the scans; French and American teams were given plastic skulls fashioned from the scans by the National Geographic Society.   "Anthropological sculptor" Elisabeth Daynes of Paris went so far as to fabricate a silicon cast with glass eyes, hair, eyelashes.   Skin tone was guessed, and Daynes reportedly "added jewelry and makeup appropriate for the period."   Images of her model are the Tut we see.

But the right makeup, the right jewelry?   The result looks appropriately... Parisian.   And androgynous...

[More]   The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, USA, May 18, 2005.

An official report revealed that 827,347 tourists visited Egypt during March, with an increase of 26 percent over March 2004.   A total of 6.8 million nights were spent by tourists in Egypt while $724 million was spent.

The report, issued by the Internal Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, showed that most tourists came from Southern and Western Europe, followed by Eastern Europe, then the Middle East, North America and Africa...

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, May 17, 2005.

Let's hope that the recent events haven't had too much of an impact.

A couple of news articles rolled into one from TravelVideo.TV.

At the necropolis of Saqqara necropolis, 25 km south of Giza, an Egyptian team headed by Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), stumbled upon a beautiful Late Period mummy, as well as two false doors, within the vicinity of the pyramid of the sixth dynasty King Teti...

... Dr. Hawass announced Tuesday the results of three independent attempts to reconstruct the face of Egypt's most famous king, Tutankhamun...

[More]   TravelVideo.TV, Canada, May 19, 2005.