It isn't often that sixth-graders get excited about looking at ancient artifacts.

But students at Skyline Ranch K-8 in the Santan area are all ears as they prepare to sneak a rare peek into the past with a trip to the King Tut exhibit in Los Angeles...

6th-graders look forward to seeing King Tut, The Arizona Republic, Arizona, USA, September 20, 2005.

Visitors to the Jordanville Library on Route 167 are being met by an unexpected face these days.

Nefertiti at 15, a manikin bust, is waiting there. She is a creation of Donna C. Veeder of the Jordanville/Van Hornesville/Little Falls area. Veeder, a teacher and Arts Committee member with the Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, Little Falls, specializes in portraits. Nefertiti is accompanied by a poster, which presents other members of her family, a sort of family tree. She was the stepmother of the famous Boy King: Tut, or Tutankhamun...

'Nefertiti at 15' greets visitors to Jordanville Public Library, Herkiner Evening Telegram, New York, USA, September 19, 2005.

In the tomb of Intef, a royal herald of the 18th dynasty of the New Kingdom (1500 to 1100 B.C.), there is a detailed mural of Egyptian winemaking. From the pictures in the mural, and particularly the captions in and under the pictures, we know many details about the way the ancient Egyptians made wine.

They were the first to use trellises, and the pickers reached above their heads to cut down the bunches of grapes hanging from the trellises. The grapes then were carried in baskets to the crushers, who stomped them in a large, raised tub, sampling the proto-wine and singing an ode to Rennutet, the goddess of the harvest. Over the tub was a beam with pieces of rope hanging down, like the straps in a public bus, which the crushers held onto for dear life to keep from slipping and falling...

Egyptian winemaking methods still very alive, Center Daily Times, Pennsylvania, USA, September 18, 2005.

News reports in Cairo said that the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to accept the resignation of the minister of culture Farouk Hosni and decided to keep him in his post...

Mubarak rejects resignation of culture minister, Arabic News, September 19, 2005.

King Tut fever has struck. And soon it will be hard to avoid. At Trina, the restaurant on Fort Lauderdale's beach, a cocktail called a Tutini will be served. Starting in mid-December, the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa will offer several new spa packages: The Sphinx, Queen of the Nile and Pharaoh's Ritual. And at the Day's Inn Bahia Cabana Resort, a King Tut Crab Cake Oscar will make its menu debut.

While we're still three months away from the opening of "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" at Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art, the Egyptian king is proving to be a regional marketing bonanza...

Tutmania already looks like a tourism bonanza three months before its premiere, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Florida, USA, September 19, 2005.

A team of Hungarian archaeologists, headed by Egyptologist Gabor Lassanyi, will conduct excavations in Sudanese Nubia — an area on the river Nile conquered by ancient Egyptians — the Hungarian news agency MTI reports. Work will be conducted close to the Meroe Hamadab dam, a huge hydroelectricity project which will turn a 174-kilometre stretch of the Nile into a reservoir, causing the local population to relocate. The dam will generate electricity with a capacity of 1,250 megawatts, tripling the country's electricity generation capacity.

The Nile valley has more than 2,000 archaeological sites and Hungary has in the past participated in expeditions, like the 1964 mission to Egypt to rescue an ancient palace threatened by the Aswan High Dam's construction.

Under a bilateral agreement the findings will be shared and the objects will be exhibited in Budapest's Museum of Fine Arts.

Sudan: Hungarian Archaeology Expedition in Nubia, AKI, Italy, September 20, 2005.

The disappearance of three items from the Egyptian Museum has prompted investigations that may be taken over by the General Prosecutor, according to press reports on Monday.

The three artefacts dating back to 2649-2150 BC were found missing September 7 – five months after being lent to the museum for an exhibition, the state-owned daily al-Ahram reported...

Antiquities go missing from Egyptian museum, Independent Online, South Africa, September 19, 2005, via ArchaeoBlog.