A short interview with Joanne Salvador who recently became the proud owner of a 3,300 year-old statue of Tutankhamun.

What a Life, Newsday, New York, USA, September 25, 2005.

cf. Lindenhurst art collector finds 3300-year-old Egyptian sculpture.

A travel article from the pages of the Boston Globe.

A ribbon of butterscotch shimmered across the horizon, the final remnant of a glorious setting sun. Nightfall comes rapidly on the Nile, and the remaining feluccas hurried past, seeking anchorage before darkness. In three millennia, the single-sail, gaff-rigged vessels have not changed. Today, as in 1000 BC, they skim the water with seamless grace, still devoid of running lights.

From the pool deck of Abercrombie & Kent's 18-stateroom Sun Boat III, we gazed west across the Nile at a scene unchanged since the feluccas first sailed. Yet behind us, where our boat was berthed, sprawled the metropolis of Aswan, with 1 million residents and home of Egypt's technological marvel, the Aswan High Dam. It is the departure point for an equally compelling marvel: the transplanted temples of Philae, now enshrined on higher ground on the tiny island of Agilkia on the Nile. The setting epitomized what we had come to expect in seven nights on this river: extraordinary antiquities quietly coexisting in the shadows of an encroaching modern world...

Passage through antiquity, The Boston Globe, Massachusetts, USA, September 25, 2005.

It's been described as a place to take your doddering grandma, not a hot date. But when the rebuilt M.H. de Young Museum debuts in three weeks, you won't recognize the place. In the heart of Golden Gate Park, where the Bay Area's icon of classical art has stood since 1919, is a stunning copper-clad museum that already is raising the art world's pulse...

...But should traditionalists wince at all the modern twists, the inaugural traveling exhibit features treasures of the 15th-century BC Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut, one of the few female pharaohs. Her reputation, incidentally, took a hit — before enjoying a modern revival.

Private effort gives new life to old museum, San Jose Mercury News, California, USA, September 25, 2005.