Students entering first through sixth grades can experience the wonders of ancient Egypt when the Youth Services Department of the Monroe Public Library hosts "Exploring Egyptology" from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 20.

Registration is requested. Participants may sign up by calling or stopping by the Monroe Public Library when it reopens July 18.   The event is one in a series of "I Wonder Wednesday" workshops scheduled for elementary-aged students as part of the library's summer program...

Library to host 'Exploring Egyptology' July 20, The Monroe Times, Wisconsin, USA, July 13, 2005.

Discovery of mysterious doors suggests possibility of hidden treasures.

For years scholars have believed that the pyramid of King Khufu, largest of the three "great" pyramids at Giza, had been plundered in antiquity and everything of value, including the body of Khufu himself, had been removed.

Now, Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities and director of the Giza Plateau, suspects that might not be the case.

"I really personally believe," he recently told a sold-out lecture hall in the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, "that the secret chamber of Khufu is hidden inside the pyramid." ...

The Great Pyramid may still contain Khufu's intact pharaonic tomb, Daily Star, Lebanon, July 14, 2005.

Egypt is launching a campaign for the return of five of its most precious artefacts from museums abroad, including the Rosetta Stone in London and the graceful bust of Nefertiti in Berlin.

Zahi Hawass, the country's chief archaeologist, said the UN's cultural agency UNESCO had agreed to mediate in its claims for artefacts currently at the British Museum, Paris' Louvre, two German museums and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.

If Egypt presses the campaign, it would be joining for the first time what has been an uphill battle by several countries to get back pieces they see as looted by Western museums, usually during the colonial era.

Most notably, Greece has been seeking for decades the return of the Parthenon's Elgin Marbles from the British Museum...

Egypt wants its museum treasures back, AAP via The Age, Australia, July 14, 2005.

cf. Egypt asks UNESCO for help in securing return of Rosetta Stone, other precious artifacts, AP via WOAI San Antonio News, Texas, USA, July 13, 2005.

Egyptian authorities announced on Monday the discovery at Cairo's citadel of an underground passageway tall enough to accommodate a mounted horseman.

The 150-metre-long tunnel, the longest of several beneath the citadel, was found in the vicinity of the 19th century Mohamed Ali mosque in the course of a project to drain off groundwater from under the compound.

The Cairo Citadel dates to the 12th century...

Knights may have travelled beneath citadel, IOL, South Africa, July 11, 2005.