So is it Thutmose or Tuthmosis? Or perhaps Thutmosis or Tuthmose?

Randomly picking a few books from the shelf I find that Peter Clayton seems to prefer Tuthmosis, yet Aidan Dodson uses Thutmose, and Regine Schulz Thutmosis.

The two exhibitions featuring recreations of T IIIs tomb, at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh and the de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco opt for differing spellings also.

So I decided to conduct an experiment of sorts and asked Google what the world ‘thinks’. Here are the results:

• Thutmose — 159,000 pages
• Thutmosis — 77,000 pages
• Tuthmosis — 59,500 pages
• Tuthmose — 613 pages

So there you have it.

References

, Peter A. Clayton, Thames and Hudson, London, 1994.
, Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, Thames and Hudson, London, 2004.
, Regine Schulz and Matthias Seidel, Könemann, Cologne, 1998.

Whilst trawling the net for Egyptology related articles I came across this useless fact. Punt is now a place again! It's an autonomous state in north-west Somalia.

See this Wikipedia article: Puntland and the CIA World Factbook entry for Somalia.

It is named after the Ancient Egyptian name for the area which is where Hatshepsut sent her famous expedition depicted upon the walls of Deir-el-Bahari.

Punt and Ta-Netjer, Jacques Kinnaer, Ancient Egypt from A to Z.

Hatshepsut, Female Pharaoh of Egypt, Caroline Seawright, Tour Egypt.

The Wonderful Land of Punt, Jimmy Dunn, Tour Egypt.

Credit Suisse has signed up to be the first founding partner for The O2, formerly the Millennium Dome.

The long-term deal makes the bank — which has the UK headquarters of its subsidiary CSFB at Cabot Square — the official banking and financial services partner of the £500 million[*] development on the Greenwich Peninsula, opposite Canary Wharf.

The deal, signed with Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) last week, will include title sponsorship of the Tutankhamun exhibition, scheduled to open in 2007...

CSFB signs up to Dome, The Wharf, UK, October 13, 2005.

Faced with raising close to $18,000 to cover their admission, plus the buses to take them [on a Nov. 15 2005 field trip to the King Tut exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art], the 480 sixth-graders have been fundraising. The latest effort was using their spare change to vote for the teachers they wanted to see perform a zany, agreed-upon task...

'Teacher torture', Venture County Star, California, USA, October 12, 2005.

Pass through the black curtain and you enter a different world ... a perilous world populated by five-headed serpents and terrifying demons, where it is not unknown for people to be boiled alive or decapitated.

You have just 12 hours to journey through this place to your final destination. Succeed and you will enjoy everlasting life. Fail and you will be condemned to eternal damnation.

It might sound like the tagline for the latest campaign to sell a computer game, but this is an ancient tale. And it is one which is being played out on the floors of the City Art Centre, [Edinburgh,] which has been transformed into an exact replica of the tomb of the Immortal Pharaoh, Thutmose III...

Journey to eternal life of Pharaoh, The Scotsman, UK, October 12, 2005.

For the first time in 26 years, the treasures of Tutankhamun (King Tut), an extensive exhibition of more than 130 artefacts from the tomb of the celebrated Pharaoh and other Valley of the Kings ancestors is coming to America.

Beginning Dec. 15, the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale hosts the collection.

Featured treasures in the exhibition, which are all between 3,300 and 3,500 years old, include Tutankhamun's royal diadem — the gold crown discovered encircling the head of the king's mummified body that he likely wore while living — and one of the gold and precious stone inlaid coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs.

The exhibit opens for a very limited time Dec. 15 [2005 - April 23 2006] at the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale.

General ticket sales begin Tuesday [yesterday]...

King Tut's Treasures Coming To South Florida, Local 10, Florida, USA, October 11, 2005.

An admirer of Egyptian culture, Eduardo Vilela has already travelled to the Arab country to photograph the originals and then transform them into replicas. Some of his works, like sculptures and pictures, may be seen at exhibition 'Ancient Egypt – Myths and Symbols', which has been travelling Brazil since 1997 and will take place in the city of São José dos Campos, in the interior of Brazil, from October 18th to November 2nd.

São Paulo – Pharaohs, pyramids, mummies, temples and hieroglyphs inspire the work of Brazilian artist Eduardo Vilela, who reproduces in his pictures and sculptures replicas of Archaeological items. Some of the works may be seen at travelling exhibition "Ancient Egypt – Myths and Symbols", which has been travelling the country since 1997. The next stop is Shopping Colinas, in the city of São José dos Campos, in the interior of São Paulo, in south-eastern Brazil...

Ancient Egypt inspires Brazilian artist, Brazil-Arab News Agency, Brazil, October 06, 2005.

An Egyptian look — particularly the kind of Egyptian look inspired by the current travelling exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" — is the design motif du jour.

In 1976, when King Tut last popped up in the United States in a travelling museum exhibit, homes and offices and even movies were laced with lots of King Tut imagery.

Flash forward to today.

Soon after the new Tut exhibit's June debut in Los Angeles ... people who make the buying decisions at many retailers started stocking up on Tut-esque decor...

Tut craze has an afterlife, Orange County Register, California, USA, October 11, 2005.

Egypt is preparing to use the latest technology to solve a 4,500-year-old riddle. A robot is to be sent up two narrow shafts in the Great Pyramid in Giza to discover whether a secret burial chamber contains the real tomb of the pharaoh [Khufu].

The chief Egyptian archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, is to inspect the robot designed by Singapore scientists this week...

The Singapore team has been working on a new robot for the past two years. The device is to drill through the second door and a stone slab blocking the second shaft in the pyramid...

Egypt uses new technology to solve pyramid riddle, The New Zealand Herald, New Zealand, October 12, 2005.

cf. Robot to explore Great Pyramid's secret chamber, The Independent, UK, October 12, 2005.

A tourism article about Abu-Simbel from news.com.au that I missed when it was published over a month ago!

With 90 or so sons, countless daughters and territorial conquests, Rameses II launched a building program commemorating himself for eternity.

His magnificent temples, ornate underground tombs and innumerable huge statues across Egypt each are extraordinary. But one monument stands on a scale that stretches credulity – Abu Simbel.

About 300km south of Aswan on the desert banks of the Nile River's Lake Nasser, four enormous figures of the king are carved in the sandstone face of a mountain amid a region of stark desolation...

Guarding giant god of the Nile, News Interactive, Australia, September 04, 2005.

Egyptian Ambassador Mohamed El Sayed Taha opened an exhibition called the Legend of Pharaoh at the Mangga Dua World Trade Center in West Jakarta on Saturday.

The exhibition was held in conjunction with the fasting month of Ramadhan to give shoppers a brief glimpse at the culture and history of Egypt.

"The spirit of Ramadhan makes any occasion extra special and unique. Therefore organization of the exhibition during the Ramadhan month will add a cultural dimension to this holy month," Sayed Taha said in his speech.

The Legend of Pharaoh exhibition — held until Nov. 6 on the third floor of the Mangga Dua World Trade Center — also received recognition from the Indonesian Museum of Records (MURI) in the superlative criteria for the construction of the largest replica of a pyramid inside a shopping mall.

The whole exhibition is housed inside a replica of a 5.6-meter high Egyptian pyramid with a 153-square-meter base, according to Paulus Pangka from the Indonesian Museum of Records (MURI).

As they enter the pyramid, visitors are greeted by a 10-minute video of the mummy preservation techniques employed by ancient Egyptians, after which a replica of a mummy is displayed.

"All the pieces in the exhibit were contributed by the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt," Sayed Taha explained.

Various replicas representing part of Egypt's rich history are also displayed, including the death mask of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Visitors interested in seeing the exhibition are charged Rp 10,000 (about US$1) with the proceeds to be donated to orphan children.

Legend of Pharaoh exhibit opens in Jakarta, Jakarta Post, Indonesia, October 09, 2005.