Harrogate's Royal Pump Room Museum is running an exhibition entitled "Discover Ancient Egypt" where you can see Egyptian Jar, where they found the grime mentioned in the previous post, for yourself.   The exhibition runs until 4th September 2005.

Discover Ancient Egypt, Harrogate Borough Council.

Harrogate Royal Pump Room Museum, 24 House Museum.

cf. Tests show museum's 5000-year-old Egyptian vase is for real, 24 Hour Museum, UK, August 08, 2004.

Plans are underway to launch an innovative study to help engage prisoners at Whitemoor Prison in East Anglia with collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

Dr Sally-Ann Ashton, Senior Assistant Keeper in the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam, was so inspired by the prisoners' reaction to lectures she gave there she is now seeking funds for a scheme to provide them with digital information.

Sally gave her first lecture at the prison last summer on Greek rulers in Egypt in which she showed how these Greeks wanted to be seen as Egyptian.   Her second lecture in April described how the Romans saw Egypt as part of Africa...

[More]   24 Hour Museum, UK, June 03, 2005.

Museum staff are appealing to the public after a number of ancient Egyptian artefacts were stolen from Abington Museum in Northampton.

The thieves broke in through a window on the night of May 29, 2005, and took artefacts from a late 19th/early 20th century collection.   The items formed an important part of the museum's Victorian style room, which remains open despite the thief (or thieves) smashing a glass cabinet of curiosities...

[More]   24 Hour Museum, UK, June 02, 2005.

IT has kept its secret for thousands of years but, in the end, ancient rituals proved no match for modern science.

For the past 36 years, an Egyptian jar has stood in the collection of a Harrogate museum and, for countless years before that, lay in the deserts of the Middle East.   But tests have proved that the residue inside is not just the grime of centuries, but is all that is left of a long-dead priest...

[More]   The Northern Echo, UK, June 03, 2005.

The mysteries behind the life and love of an Ancient Egyptian queen are unravelled in two competitive Hollywood film epics...

[More]   Egypt Today, Egypt, Volume 26, Issue 06, June 2005.

Two!   One starring Halle Berry none the less.   By the way, the other day it was reported that Hawass was going

to ban the John Heyman film as it was based on a book by Ahmed Osman.

cf. 'Nefertiti Queen of the Nile' halted due to controversy over supposed 'Jewish' roots, Al Bawaba, Jordan, May 30, 2005.

Buy "Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus", Ahmed Osman, Bear & Company, 2002, from amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, or amazon.ca.

Old Black Eyes is back, and his new tour is generating ticket sales- and controversy.

King Tut has been kicking up dust ever since British archeologist Howard Carter discovered his treasure-filled, 3,000-year-old tomb in 1922.   That notorious unearthing-it supposedly unleashed a curse that doomed several people around the dig-inspired Hollywood horror movies and spurred on the art deco craze.   The boy king's first U.S. tour, which began in 1976, was epic pop: it launched the era of museum blockbuster shows, with unprecedented crowds craning to see the tomb's gold and jeweled artifacts, while the cash registers ca-chinged in the nearby souvenir stalls.   When you're talking Tut, the line between scholarship and showmanship has always been pretty thin...

[More]   Newsweek via MSNBC, USA, June 05, 2005.

Queen Nefertiti travelled to Italy yesterday in a Pharaonic cortege on an Egyptian plane, to take part in the Egyptian tourist festival due to be held in Milan on June 18-19 under the auspices of the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Authority and EgyptAir.

"This festival targets the activation and attraction of the Italian tourists to Egypt", said Magdy Attiya, the tourist expert in charge of this festival, adding that "the festival will be held in Magda Palace, Milan's greatest theatres. This celebration will include folklore shows and Nefertiti's cortege that will be played by the Egyptian girl Randa Ghazi, who has the Italian nationality.

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, June 05, 2005.

Most of the articles state that the statue belongs to Neferhotep I but the Gulf Daily News article quotes Hawass as saying that it could be Neferhotep I or III.

Buried for nearly 3,600 years, a rare statue of Egypt's King Neferhotep I has been brought to light in the ruins of Thebes by a team of French archaeologists.

Officials said on Saturday that the statue was unusual in that the king is depicted holding hands with a double of himself, although the second part of the carving remains under the sand and its form has been determined by the use of imaging equipment...

[More]   AFP via Yahoo! News, USA, June 04, 2005.

The following slideshow contains three photographs.

cf. Ancient Egyptian statue discovered, Gulf Daily News, Bahrain, June 05, 2005.

cf. Statue of Egyptian pharaoh found after nearly 3,600 years, Japan Today, Japan, June 05, 2005.

cf. Newly-unearthed Pharaoh statue to stay in Karnak, Xinhua News Agency via China View, China, June 06, 2005.

cf. Statue of Neferhotep unearthed at Karnak Temple, State Information Service, Egypt, June 05, 2005.

cf. Statue of Egyptian pharaoh found after nearly 3,600 years, AFP via Tehran Times, Iran, June 06, 2005.

cf. Egyptian pharaoh statue found after 3,600 years!, AFP via Times of Oman, Oman, June 04, 2005.