An Egyptian government report said that: some 200,000 Americans visited "Tutankhamun and the Golden age of the Pharaohs Exhibition" in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA since its inauguration last week [15th December 2005].

Florida is the second leg of the exhibition tour which covers four states. Some one million people are expected to visit the exhibition during its display in Florida, which will last for four months...

200,000 Americans visit Tut exhibition, Arabic News, December 24, 2005.

"A new hall for mummies will open at the Egyptian Museum in a fortnight's time," said Zahi Hawass, Secretary- General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).

The government noted that "The first hall contains the mummies of the Egyptian warrior Pharaohs from Sekhen-en-Ra [Seqenenre Tao II] to Rameses II, while the new hall will house the mummies of the high priests of Amun, Hawass added."

The government said "The priests of Amun saved the mummies of the great Pharaohs from being looted in the era of King Pinodjem II in the 21st Dynasty. They hid the mummies in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings," he explained adding "Forty royal mummies were found in good condition in this tomb.

"The new hall contains 11 mummies of kings, princesses and priests from the 20th and 21st Dynasties, including Rameses III, VI and VII, as well as Pinodjem Il and his wife Khenso," Wafaa el-Seddiq, Director of the Egyptian Museum was reported saying by the report "Khenso's mummy is unique in terms of the way it was embalmed and the hairstyle," she added.

A new home for mummies, Arabic News, January 04, 2006.