November 04, 1922, Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.

November 4, Wikipedia.

cf. Tutankhamen's tomb, Portalino, Italy, November 04, 2005.

The Third International Seminar on Coptic Studies will be held in Sohag early next year. Jill Kamil looks at the preparations.

"People have come to know that the series of Coptic studies seminars that take place in monasteries are serious affairs," well-known Coptologist Gawdat Gabra says. "Already we have had a most satisfactory response to our announcement that the next seminar will take place in Sohag early next year, and it promises to be even more successful than the other two."

Gabra, editor-in-chief of the St Mark Foundation and an active participant at international congresses on Coptology, was in Cairo recently following an inspection of the arrangements in Sohag. He is delighted that everything seems to be going so well so far in advance of the event.

"Finance is coming from different quarters. Various individuals and institutions are contributing accommodation, transport and other facilities," he says. "You'd be surprised to see the change, both in Sohag city and in the monasteries..."

Scene set for Coptic studies, Al-Ahram, Egypt, Issue No. 767, November 02 - 09, 2005.

cf. Framework of the seminar, Al-Ahram, Egypt, Issue No. 767, November 02 - 09, 2005.

As a prelude to the King Tut exhibition opening in December, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale will present a lecture tonight on "The Curse of the Pharaohs," by David Silverman, a University of Pennsylvania Egyptologist and curator in charge of the exhibition.

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, a display of more than 130 artefacts from the crypts of Tut and other ancient Egyptian royals, will be shown Dec. 15 [2005] through April 23 [2006].

Tonight's lecture is at 7 in the Norma and William Horvitz Auditorium at the museum, at 1 E. Las Olas Blvd. Admission is $5 for museum members, $10 for non-members. Reservations are required. Call 954-525-5500, ext. 239.

'Curse of the Pharaohs', The Miami Herald, Florida, USA, November 03, 2005.

Lancaster Museum Art Gallery opens Saturday an Egyptian display of its own with more than a millennium's worth of sculpture, jewellery, cosmetic objects and funerary equipment - and admission is free.

A Middle Kingdom coffin from about 1800 B.C. and wooden sarcophagus masks from 1500 B.C. — both older than Tut's treasures — will be on display, along with mummified falcons, wooden statuettes, bronze figurines, and headrests.

The exhibit also includes a life-size replica of a chariot, a re-created everyday house scene, and replica Osiris, sphinx and hawk statues that provided scenery in the 1956 movie "The Ten Commandments..."

A.V. museum showcases Egyptian display, Los Angeles daily News, California, November 04, 2005.

The van Gogh's dazzle, and the lustre and subtlety of the Rembrandts take one's breath away. But visitors to Amsterdam seeking diversity after the Rijksmuseum and the van Gogh Museum, will find it at the Allard Pierson Museum, which houses an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Etruscan art.

The Allard Pierson, which is part of the University of Amsterdam and sits on the Singel Canal near the city's popular shopping streets, offers everything from mummies and an explanation of the process by which they were buried to an elegant collection of Roman glass, Greek vases and Etruscan votive offerings...

The Allard Pierson was built around a collection assembled by C.W. Lunsingh Scheurleer, a Dutch banker, who died in 1941 ... and gave money to the Egypt Exploration Society. In exchange for gifts, donors were allowed to keep some of the finds. The group did excavations at a number of ancient sites, including Amarna, home of King Akhenaten...

Amsterdam secret: A den of antiquity, International Herald Tribune, France, November 03, 2005.

A review of the first episodes of both Egypt and Rome from one of the UK's tabloids.

At first glance, it looked like another boring history programme. Instead, it kept seven million viewers glued to their screens at the weekend.

BBC1's historical drama-documentary Egypt told the fascinating real-life tale of how, at the turn of the last century, a geeky Brit uncovered the resting place of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

As well as Howard Carter's tireless battle against all odds to find the tomb, it featured romance, intrigue and a satisfying smattering of bare-chested young men...

Rome vs Egypt, The Daily Mirror, UK, November 04, 2005.

Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni will inaugurate the Rosetta National Museum after refurbishing works in the second half of November.

The rehabilitation operations of the museum took two years to be completed at a total cost of LE 4 million, said Dr Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) on Wednesday.

Hawass said that the rejuvenation operation of the museum came as part of a national plan undertaken by the Ministry of Culture and the SCA with a view to creating a number of provincial and specialized museums in Egypt...

Rosetta national museum to be inaugurated in November, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, November 03, 2005.

The disappearance of three small statues from the basement of the Egyptian Museum in the last week of September had newspapers in a tizzy well into October. Although the pieces were discovered in mid-October, the fact that maintenance workers had smuggled the three artefacts out of the museum in burlap sacks revealed a security problem of the first order: The unprotected basement of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square houses over 60,000 pieces of varying importance, to say nothing of hundreds of thousands more at storage magazines around the nation.

According to Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), that negligence has grown from 100 years of bureaucracy and corruption. Hawass points out that as bad as the basement is, the same applies to a number of storage areas and buildings — the Saqqara storage building, for instance, is suffering from rot and many of the pieces have turned to powder...

Culture 101: Sack ‘em!, Egypt Today, Egypt, Volume #26, Issue 11, November 2005.