One of art history's most beautiful women is moving to a new address this summer, marking the reunification of the Berlin Egyptian Museum's fabulous collection after more than six decades of division.

The exquisite limestone bust of Queen Nefertiti forms the focal point of the collection, which re-opens to the public on August 13 in its new- old home at Berlin's Museum Island complex in the heart of the German capital.

The grand re-opening culminates 15 years of painstaking restoration work, museum renovations and cataloguing of the collection, which was split up for safekeeping during World War 2 and which languished in minimal exhibition spaces in both halves of the divided city — until now...

Queen Nefertiti moves to her new digs, IOL, South Africa, July 22, 2005.

Rare drawings by William Blake and Joshua Reynolds and a number of collections of letters have passed into public hands.

The works, which were privately owned, have been accepted by the government instead of inheritance tax.

"The range of objects is breathtaking, from an ancient Egyptian bronze to 20th Century political archives...

Rare drawings given to the nation, BBC News, UK, July 21, 2005.

Computerized tomography breathes new life into the ancient king's life and demise.

Using three-dimensional computerized tomography-scan imaging, a team of researchers from the United States and Egypt recently made 1,700 high- resolution cross sections of the pharaoh's bones, teeth and skull.   The effort is part of a five-year conservation project to preserve not only King Tutankhamen, but also most of Egypt's known mummies...

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In addition to their work on Tut, an international group of radiologists, epidemiologists and forensic pathologists is documenting hundreds of mummies found at Egypt's Bahariya Oasis.   Because so many of the ancient bodies are richly decorated, the area is known as the Valley of the Golden Mummies...

High Tech Tut, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginia, USA, July 21, 2005.

An Egyptian delegation, currently visiting Australia, received seven valuable monuments.

Egyptian authorities had contacted their Australian counterparts to stop sales of the 2500-year-old artefacts which were posted for sale on a website.

Dr. Zahi Hawass said the Australian authorities also found 33 antiques some of them were stolen in a famous case known as Al Shaer Case.

Hawass said full cooperation between the Attorney-General office, the Foreign Ministry and the Council led to restoration of other monuments from Switzerland Britain, the United States and Australia.

Egyptian delegation visits Australia to receive stolen Artefacts, State Information Service, Egypt, July 20, 2005.