A tourist article by Blasio Byekwaso, Kampala, Uganda.

My tour of Egypt in June last year was in fulfilment of a promise I had made. It was a fact finding tour about what my primary teachers taught me about the pharaohs, who built gigantic pyramids regarded as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world...

[More]   allAfrica.com, South Africa, May 21, 2005.

Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni stated that the first phase in constructing the Grand Museum of Egypt at Cairo-Alexandria desert road has already started.   One of the Egyptian companies is paving the new location on 117 feddans and at a cost of L.E 5 million.

Farouk Hosni affirmed that everything concerning the construction is undergoing accurate according to set schedules.   He said that there is no problem in the finance and there are alternatives as the finance we get from the Supreme Council of Antiquities besides the international aid from international agencies.   For the first time we have an American commitment for hosting "Tutankhamen" exhibit in four American states and the aid will be directed to the Museum construction...

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, May 22, 2005.

The ancient Egyptian civilization is adored by the French people who always seek for discovering secrets in this great civilization.   The latest French discovery was recomposition of an approximate image for Tut- Ankh-Amun's face.

The French magazine "Le Figaro" published a detailed report on this discovery which was also circulated in all international and regional magazines were interested in this issue.

The report shows the great role which was played by the team who were working in the Egyptian mummy project...

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, May 21, 2005.

Mayor of Hanover City in Germany will inaugurate an exhibition on Wednesday about the history of Copts in Egypt under the title "2000 years of Christianity on the Nile banks".   The inauguration ceremony will be attended by the Egyptian cultural counselor and Anba Demian of Copts in Germany.

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, May 21, 2005.

Queen Nefertiti, famed in the ancient world for her outstanding beauty, is to be reincarnated in an ambitious new British feature film...

The Nefertiti project has a budget of £63 million and will be directed by Hugh Hudson 24 years after he received four Oscars for Chariots of Fire.   The queen and her husband, the Pharaoh Akhenaten, abandoned the gods and priests of Karnak at Thebes and built the glorious city of Tel al-Amarna to worship the sun god...

[More]   The Times, UK, May 20, 2005.

... Vignovich and fellow reading teacher Therese Holt decided to make three chicken mummies with their students at Hiatt, 1214 E. 15th St., after another staff member discovered a recipe for the birds on the Internet.   Their classes read about Egypt and the mummification process, and they decided to take on the lengthy project to help reinforce what the students learned...

[More]   Des Moines Register, Iowa, USA, May 19, 2005.