Rebekah Miracle is working on Mark Lehner's Giza Mapping Project and maintaining a weblog during her time in Egypt on the project.

Check it out here:   Rock the Casblog

All three versions of the Tutankhamun facial reconstruction - the French, American, and the Egyptian team's versions - have been uploaded to the EEF website.

[More]   EEF via ArchaeoBlog.

The spring 2005 issue of Egyptian Archaeology Magazine was published some weeks ago now but I forgot to blog it at the time.

A summary of its content follows.

• Dominic Montserrat and Egyptian Archaeology by Patricia Spencer
• Satellite imaging in the pyramid fields by Miroslav Bárta and Vladimír Brůna
• Mendes: city of the ram-god by Donald Redford
• Marsa Nakari: an ancient port on the Red Sea by John Seegar and Steven Sidebotham
• The Tuthmoside stronghold of Perunefer by Manfred Bietak
• The great naos of Nekhthorheb from Bubastis by Neal Spencer
• All this pottery, what is it about? by Janine Bourriau
• Two graves and a well at Sais by Penny Wilson
• The quarries of Gebel Gulab and Gebel Tingar, Aswan by Elizabeth Bloxam and Per Storemyr

[More]   Egyptian Archaeology, UK, No. 26, Spring 2005.

The magazine can be purchased via Oxbow Books / David Brown Book Co. here.

World-renowned producer John Haymen has nominated Yusra and Dalia Al Buhairi for roles in his upcoming film, "Nefertiti Queen of the Nile."   Haymen has also chosen Egyptian actors Hani Salama and Khaled Al Nabawi for supporting roles.

Hugh Hudson has been chosen as director, and Ahmad Othman, who resides in England, wrote the script; the film is expected to receive international recognition...

[More]   Al Bawaba, Jordan, May 23, 2005.

The tourism industry in Egypt is keeping a close eye on business following two recent attacks that appeared directed at Westerners.   Some operators have reported cancellations, while others see no change.   Tourism is Egypt's premier foreign currency earner.   "The effects were very limited. It lasted two days, and now it's over..."

[More]   IPS News Service via Dawn Group, Pakistan, May 21, 2005.

Archaeology Magazine's Mark Rose reviews a forthcoming History Channel TV show.

A documentary looks at the subject's roots and an ambitious project to document the Nile's ancient civilization.

Two shows are somewhat awkwardly stuck together in The Search for Eternal Egypt, which premieres on the History Channel, Sunday, June 12, 7 pm ET/PT.   One half of the show is an overview of the development of Egyptology featuring prominent scholars, mostly filmed on-site.   The other half of the show focuses on an ambitious partnership between Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities and IBM that aims at making ancient Egyptian culture available to all.   The documentary bounces back and forth between these two themes, but the feel of the two parts is very different, and the transitions from talking heads in the field to computer specialists and digitized images are abrupt despite the efforts of narrator Omar Sharif...

[More]   Archaeology Magazine, USA, May 23, 2005.

A 'letter to the editor' published in the St. Petersburg Times by Will Michaels, executive director of the St. Petersburg Museum of History.

Re: 2,300 years later, mummy looks good, May 4.

Yes, your front-page picture of the newly discovered 2,300-year-old mummy is exciting.   The golden mask and brilliantly colored images on the burial cloth are stunning.

But local residents and visitors do not need to go to Saqqara, Egypt, to see an Egyptian mummy.   We have an even older mummy right here in St. Petersburg at the Museum of History...

[More]   St. Petersburg Times, Florida, USA, May 22, 2005.