A life-sized statue of the 13th Dynasty Pharaoh Neferhotep I has emerged from the ruins of ancient Thebes in Luxor, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Saturday.

Buried for almost 3,600 years, the six-foot limestone statue shows the "beautiful and good" pharaoh - this is what Neferhotep means - wearing the royal head cloth...

[More]   Discovery Channel News, USA, June 06, 2005.

... Tut II is a Tinseltown production in the literal as well as a figurative sense: There are three executive producers, including National Geographic, those intrepid archaeologists/explorers of TV and magazine fame. There's Arts and Exhibitions International, a newcomer in the museum world that produces exhibits as profit-making entertainment extravaganzas.

And there's the Anschutz Entertainment Group, part of the empire of billionaire mogul Philip Anschutz, who makes family-friendly movies, owns sports teams and produces rock concerts for the likes of Paul McCartney, Prince and Usher...

[More]   USA Today via EarthLink.net, USA, June 07, 2005.

Also King Tut reigns again, USA Today, USA, June 06, 2005.

Donna Tytran is an amateur Egyptologist.   She volunteers with an agency that helps people in Egypt and has traveled there for the past three years.

"I've acquired a passion for Egyptian art and history," she says.

... on the way to the parking lot ... she spotted a "painting" of King Tut in a large brass frame.   Destined for the garage sale, she asked the ... man how much it was.   They finally settled on $5...

... While I knew that the painting ... was on cloth, I thought it was a poster.   It never occurred to me that it could be a Hermes scarf...

[More]   The Detroit News, Michigan, USA, May 28, 2005.