The Mainichi Newspapers will host the "Ancient Egyptian Exhibition: Mysteries through Five Millennia," in collaboration with Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc and Toei Co., Ltd. from July 28 to Aug. 28...

Tokyo looks back on ancient Egypt, Mainichi Daily News via MSN, Japan, July 01, 2005.

cf. The Daimaru Museum.

[Japanese] women are mimicking a treatment first developed thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt and sewing threads of pure gold into their cheeks.

Golden strings laced into the face are said to have made Cleopatra look at the time of her death at age 39 as though she had the skin of a 15-year- old...

A golden stitch in time saves nine years of aging, Mainichi Daily News via MSN, Japan, July 06, 2005.

The ... exhibition focuses on four cultures in sub-Saharan Africa: the Dogon (doh'-gahn) of Mali, the Baule (ba ou le' or BOW-lay) of the Ivory Coast, the Yoruba (your'-a-bah or yoh-roo'-bah) of Nigeria and the Kuba Kingdom of the Congo.   There are also several ancient Egyptian burial objects from various dynasties...

African art, Deseret News, Utah, USA, July 10, 2005.

cf. Africa: Arts of a Continent, Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

Pierre Lacotte’s reconstruction of The Pharaoh’s Daughter, based on Marius Petipa’s original 1862 ballet, will be released on DVD tomorrow.

The Harmonia Mundi DVD contains the Bolshoi Ballet’s performance of the ballet, with Svetlana Zakharova and Sergueï Filin in the lead roles.   Alexander Sotnokov conducted the Bolshoi Theatre’s orchestra...

Bolshoi Reconstruction of The Pharaoh's Daughter Released, PlaybillArts, July 11, 2005.

The wonders of Egypt are being recreated on the South Coast by 60 artists from around the world in a summer-long sand sculpture festival.

Nearly 10,000 tons — 500 lorry loads — of special sand has been shipped from Holland to Brighton Marina for the festival, which lasts until September...

Wonders of Egypt created in sand, BBC News, UK, July 11, 2005.

More on the discovery of ancient Egyptian glass factories.

Archaeologists have uncovered for the first time the remains of a Bronze Age glass factory, where skilled artisans made glass from its raw materials.   Surprisingly, this factory, which was bustling around 1250 B.C., is in Egypt rather than Mesopotamia, which is generally thought to be where glass was first made...

How Egypt turned dust into treasures of glass, MSNBC, USA, July 07, 2005, via Explorator.

The earliest known historical text on surgery is the Edwin Smith papyrus.   Dating to 1600 BC, it is, in fact, the oldest known medical document.   The practical material in the Edwin Smith papyrus stands in stark contrast to the magical incantations in another celebrated Egyptian medical text, the Ebers Papyrus...

The Edwin Smith Papyrus, medGadget, July 08, 2005, via Explorator.

TravelVideo's periodic roundup of antiquity and tourism news from Egypt.

Antiquity and Tourism Report from Egypt, TravelVideo.TV, Canada, July 11, 2005.

We stood in a line outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that stretched halfway to Giza, and I guessed that even the ancient Egyptians didn't wait this long to see the boy king.

We came not to find out why he died, although experts disagree on the cause of his demise, but to marvel at the stuff he took with him as presented by National Geographic.   We were among thousands who bought $25 tickets for the opportunity to see objects so invaluable as to boggle the mind...

Tut exhibit tainted with more than a touch of tawdry hucksterism, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada, USA, July 10, 2005.

More on the Pesed CT scan.   Actually very little on the Pesed CT scan and more on the author getting in touch with his Egyptian side.

This is a cruel editor's joke ... right?   Send the Egyptian intern to cover the CT scan of an ancient Egyptian mummy that belongs to Westminster College.   Ha, ha.

Somehow, I will have to awe my editors with my ability to conjure up the spirits of my dead ancestors and transfer their mystic power into perfectly phrased prose.   This is going to be great...

Up close and personal with a very distant and mummified relative, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pennsylvania, USA, July 09, 2005.

... Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs includes 50 major objects excavated from Tutankhamun's tomb — each has an individual story and historical significance.

Among the tomb's treasures are series of objects associated with the pharaoh's embalming.   The highlight, said Cooney, is a Viscera Coffin that always draws a large crowd.   It is one of four miniature coffins used to house King Tut's internal organs.   The one on display in this exhibit held his liver.

The mini-coffin is an exact miniature of King Tut's famous golden funeral sarcophagus.   People are surprised when they see the mini-coffin in person.   The work on it is so fine and detailed that photographs of the canopic jar easily trick people into thinking it's the full-size sarcophagus...

King Tut revisited, Deseret News, Utah, USA, July 10, 2005.