The permanent committee for monuments agreed to allow a German archaeological mission to conduct a study on Tuna Al-Jebal tombs in Minya, Upper Egypt, in preparation for renovating them.

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said the German mission will launch an archaeological survey in the area in preparation for the renovation of the site and turning it into a world tourist destination.

Egyptian-German project to renovate Minya monuments, State Information Service, Egypt, October 31, 2005.

Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said that the first two sites in the Grand Egyptian Museum which the ministry establishes at Cairo, Alexandria desert road will be inaugurated early next year.

The two sites are the power station and the World Centre of Restoration, which represent the beginning of the giant museum which is considered the largest in the entire world.

The museum will be built on an area of 117 feddans, and will embrace more that 100,000 pieces of antiquities that tell the various stages of Pharaonic civilization.

The museum will be implemented over the coming five years, and will provide more than 3000 job opportunities to the distinguished graduates.

The Minister added that President Hosni Mubarak follows up the various steps of the project by the contributes effectively in surmounting any difficulties or obstacles that delay the construction of the museum.

The museum would be the greatest cultural world project in the current century.

Farouk Hosni: opening of first two sites at grand Egyptian museum, State Information Service, Egypt, November 01, 2005.

The Pyramids of Egypt are arguably the most famous and grandest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, yet only a small percentage of people have ever viewed them live — until now. PyramidCam.com provides the first live view of these ancient and beautiful monuments, seen through the lens of a high definition network camera (www.pyramidcam.com).

"The Internet and network cameras make it possible for anyone with a computer to view the Pyramids during the daylight hours in Cairo in all their varying moods under changing light and local weather conditions," said Jim Sorenson of PyramidCam.com. "Our main objective is to make the Pyramids visually available to the entire world on a real-time basis: to schools and universities; to those who cannot travel; and to those who only know them from pictures in books, from television or from scanned photos taken off the web..."

Live Webcam Captures the Beauty of the Pyramids, Yahoo! Finance, USA, October 26, 2005.

Although now at home in the Rutgers University Geology Museum, the female mummy that resides on the Old Queens campus building spent many years in a far more undignified place: one of the closets of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary.

That's right, mummy.

Few students here are aware of the opportunity to catch a rare glimpse into the burial ceremony of a foreign and strange culture.

Of course, other than its resting place, there is very little known about the mysterious mummy.

"We know it came from Northern Egypt, but that's about it," said William Selden, the collections manager of the Geology Hall...

Mysterious mummy lays in Geology Hall, The Daily Targum, New Jersey, USA, October 28, 2005, via ArchaeoBlog

World-renowned Egyptologist Kent Weeks, director of the Theban Mapping Project and professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, will speak at Connecticut College on Thursday, Nov. 3 [2005], at 5 p.m. His lecture, "The Future of Pharaohs: Protecting Egypt's Heritage," will take place in the Charles Chu Asian Arts Reading Room in Shain Library.

This event is free and open to the public.

Weeks made international headlines in 1995 when he uncovered the entrance to a massive "lost tomb" in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. That coup, according to the Discovery Channel, is considered to be on a short list of the 20th century's most important discoveries in Egypt, second only to finding King Tut...

Egyptologist on "Future of the Pharaohs" Nov. 3, Connecticut College, Connecticut, USA, October 31, 2005.

Egyptian archaeologists, who normally scour the desert in search of treasures of the past, have discovered that one of the greatest caches of antiquities may well be in the basement of the Egyptian Museum. For the last century, artefacts have been stored away in crates there and forgotten, often allowed to disintegrate in the dank, dusty cavern.

Forgotten until now. The recent theft and recovery of three statues from the basement have prompted antiquity officials in Egypt to redouble an effort already under way to complete the first comprehensive inventory of artefacts in the basement.

"For the last 100 years, curators sat down to drink tea, but they did not do their jobs," said Zahi Hawass, the general secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. "How many artefacts are in the basement? It was awful."

Step through a small, Hobbit-sized door, down a steep flight of stairs and through a locked gate. The basement is a maze of arched passageways and bare light bulbs hanging from decaying wires. It is packed with wooden crates, hundreds of them, sometimes piled floor to ceiling...

Those Forgotten Mummies in the Cellar Must Be Cursed, The New York Times, New York, USA, November 01, 2005.

cf. Digging for antiquities at the Egyptian Museum, International Herald Tribune, France, November 01, 2005.