The head of the Nicholson Museum has been pushed out and a longstanding staff member faces financial ruin as part of the controversial restructure of Sydney University's museums and art collections.

Dr Karin Sowada left the museum last year. An Egyptologist with nine years' experience at the museum and 14 archaeological excavations to her résumé, she was on maternity leave when she was informed her job was being revised and she would have to reapply for it. She applied but was passed over for her maternity-leave replacement, Michael Turner, a postgraduate student.

Although Sowada didn't want to comment on the restructure, which was conducted to bring the three museums into line and create positions that spanned them all, she said she was angered that the process was begun when she wasn't at work...

Pushed out of top job, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, February 03, 2006.

cf. New order: dust them down, show them off, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, February 03, 2006.

Tutankhamun was killed by a sword blow to the knee, Italian experts claim.

Two doctors from Bolzano University, long-time researchers into Italy's famed Iceman, were part of an international team that recently took another look at Egypt's most famous mummy.

The group found traces of gold leaf bearing animal symbols in the late pharaoh's right kneecap, leading them to surmise that it had fallen off Tutankhamun's raiment and lodged in a hole during mummification.

The hole in question appears to have been caused by a sword, they say...

King Tut slain by sword in the knee, ANSA, Italy, February 02, 2006.

The transcript for the NOVA program The Mummy Who Would Be King has been put online at the address below.

There are also transcripts available for Secrets of Lost Empires: This Old Pyramid, February 04, 1997; Secrets of Lost Empires: Obelisk, February 12, 1997; and Secrets of Lost Empires II: Pharaoh's Obelisk, February 08, 2000.

The Mummy Who Would Be King, NOVA, USA, January 03, 2006.

Creating Egyptian art was just part of a day's fun for Year 3 and 4 pupils at Shalfleet Primary School.

Painting was one of the activities with each pupil creating their own interpretations of Egyptian art using inks and specially-made reed pens.

The paintings will be put together to create a huge frieze to hang in the school.

As part of their half-term topic, the children also donned robes and bandages to look like mummies, peasants, slaves and gods for their Egyptian Day...

Putting the Inks in Sphinx, Isle of Wight Today, UK, February 01, 2006.

While attracting large numbers of museum visitors, the South Florida arm of the travelling King Tut exhibit also has attracted a large group of local volunteers, according to Leslie Bell, volunteer coordinator for the Museum of Art.

Roughly 300 volunteers help the museum by offering ticket information, greeting museum visitors and regulating the traffic flow inside and outside the museum. The volunteer team includes an additional group of 70 docents, who have each gone through extensive training in order to serve as tour guides for the King Tut exhibit.

"They trained all summer to be able to know and answer questions about the artefacts and ancient Egyptian culture," Bell said.

Many greeters and guides are local retirees, such as Brenda Wilburn, who used to work as an executive secretary and now employs the clerical and organizational skills she learned on the job to her volunteer work in the museum office. She also serves as a roaming docent...

Guiding visitors through King Tut's world, Miami Herald, Florida, USA, January 30, 2006.