The Gifts of the Gods: Adornment in Antiquity is one of the [University of Saskatchewan’s] annual shifting exhibitions. These transitory exhibits are meant to highlight a certain aspect of the Museum’s collection and a certain theme drawn from the artworks and artefacts of history...

... Adornment is the Museum's specifically created collection of replicas and original pieces from the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Medieval and Renaissance Europe...

... Some replicas are drawn from the Museum’s already existing collection to suit the Adornment theme. For one, there’s a replica example of a gloriously decorated sword of the Knights Templar, but other pieces are of the “golly, it’s real!” variety. These include a selection of authentic Egyptian amulets, used in antiquity not only for personal adornment but for warding off evil...

All that glitters is not gold, The Sheaf, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 26, 2006.

Egypt has always been a place of wonder, mystery and exciting discoveries. Pyramids, mummies, and Pharaohs: all invoking passion and beauty.

Now, after 27 years, people are being given the chance to stand face-to-face with artefacts which lied in the hands of one of histories most infamous kings, King Tutankhamun.

The artefacts were brought to the United States previously in 1979 and now, for the first time, they have been brought to Florida.

Held at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, the exhibit traces the life of a nine-year-old boy who ruled Egypt between 1333-1323 B.C. and mysteriously died around the age of 19...

King Tutankhamun Exhibit displays Egyptian artefacts, The Beacon Newspaper, Florida International University, Florida, USA, January 26, 2006.

The remains of a ship used by ancient Egyptians for commercial trips to the fabled land of Punt have been discovered in five caves engraved in a port on the Red Sea.

The find, in the Marsa Gawasees area near the Red Sea resort of Safaga, dates back to the Middle Kingdom and was excavated by a joint American and Italian team from Boston University and East Naples working in the area for five years, it was reported Thursday.

Higher Antiquities Council Secretary-general Zahi Hawass called the find one of the most important marine excavations that confirms that Punt lay to the south of Egypt and not in Sinai as previously believed...

Ancient ship remains are unearthed at Egyptian Red Sea port, DPA via Monsters & Critics, UK, January 26, 2006.

A review of Christianity and Monasticism in the Fayoum Oasis, Gawdat Gabra, ed., Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2005. pp322

This publication includes most, but not all, of the papers presented at the second International Seminar on Coptic Studies in the Fayoum in February 2004, and it provides the first comprehensive and up-to-date studies on Christian growth and development in the fertile depression southwest of Cairo. Here Christianity began in the third century, and its presence has endured to the present day.

The first seminar on Coptic studies took place at Wadi Al-Natrun in 2002, a monastic area west of the Delta which was already well known and documented: Hugh Evelyn- White's monumental 1933 study of the area, The History of the Monasteries of the Wadi'n Natrun, was reprinted in 1973 to include additional historical, archaeological, and philological data. The seminar, in other words, took place on familiar territory. It is only to be regretted that the papers given at that seminar, which cast additional light on the growth and development of monastic life in Wadi Al-Natrun in recent years, were not published.

However, this deficiency has been set right at the second seminar...

Monastic memories of Al-Fayoum, Al-Ahram, Egypt, Issue No. 779, 26 January - 1 February 2006.

A beautiful black granite statue of Queen Tiye, mother of the monotheistic king Akhenaten, was unearthed last Monday in Luxor, reports Nevine El-Aref. At Karnak's Mut Temple, a John Hopkins University archaeological mission stumbled upon the statue while brushing sand off the temple's second hall.

"The statue is mostly intact," said Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), who added that although the 160cm tall statue has a broken arm and a missing leg, it was still considered very well preserved. It features a standing Queen Tiye wearing a wig and a cobra-decorated crown...

... In other archaeology-related news, the SCA and the Luxor Supreme Council agreed to enlarge the road around the two famous Memnon statues on Luxor's West Bank; they also discussed the possibility of constructing a visitors' centre — similar to the one at the Abu Simbel Temple — at the entrance of the Valley of the Kings.

Discovering Queen Tiye, Al-Ahram, Egypt, Issue No. 779, 26 January - 1 February 2006.

For the third consecutive year, Egypt has registered a record number of international tourists and tourists nights. The year 2005 witnessed a record number of 8.6 million of international tourists visiting Egypt.

From 6 million in 2003 the number has jumped to 8.1 in 2004 to reach to a new height of 8.6 million with an increase of 6.2 percent over 2004.

The Canadian market surpassed the average figure with an increase of 8.2 percent, reaching to a total of 52000 tourists representing a new record high for Canada.

First come Germany with 980000 tourists preceding Italy with 820000 tourists who came third after Britain who recorded a spectacular increase of 53 percent with 840000 tourists.

Russia came fourth with 780000 tourists followed by France with half a million tourists...

New Record: 8.6 million tourists in Egypt, TravelVideo.TV, Ontario, Canada, January 23, 2006.