Egyptian queen Cleopatra used her hairstyles in calculated ways to enhance her power and fame, according to a book published recently by a Yale art history and classics professor.

Statues, coins and other existing depictions of the queen suggest Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.) wore at least three hairstyles, according to Diana Kleiner. The first, a "travelling" do that mimicked the hair of a Macedonian Greek queen, involved sectioning the hair into curls, which were then often pulled away from the face and gathered into a bun at the back.

The next was a coiffure resembling a melon, and the third was the regal Cleopatra in her royal Egyptian headdress, complete with a rearing cobra made of precious metal.

Cleopatra did not invent any of these styles, but she used them to her advantage, Kleiner indicated in her book " ..."

Cleopatra Worked Her Power Hair, Discovery Channel News, USA, March 17, 2006.

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This year we celebrate 10 years of serving the tourist who travel to Egypt, and the tourist industry in Egypt, actually a rather long haul for almost any web site. Tour Egypt dates back to the very early days of the commercial internet itself, when the Ministry of Tourism and the Egyptian Tourism Authority requested our services in providing them with their official site...

Tell us What You Want to See on Tour Egypt, Jimmy Dunn, Tour Egypt, Texas, USA, March 09, 2006.

We attempted the faithful reproduction of the brewing processes depicted on the mural paintings in the tombs of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep of the Old Kingdom and in the tomb of Kenamun of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt using a common pathway. After multiple reproductions, we succeeded in brewing stable beer using both of the above processes. Surprisingly, the two processes were proven to be completely different. We also attempted to analyze the manufacturing processes depicted in the Kaemraef mural painting, as well as the Meketre models, of the Middle Kingdom. It was evident that the manufacturing process of the Kaemref mural painting belonged to the Niankhkhnum type, while the Meketre models fell under the Kenamun process. These results indicate that two ancient Egyptian beer-manufacturing processes coexisted for a long period of time in Upper and Lower Egypt...

Two Different Brewing Processes Revealed from Two Ancient Egyptian Mural Paintings, Hideto Ishida, Technical Quarterly, Master Brewers Association of the Americas, Minnesota, USA, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2005, pp. 273 - 282. Via EEF News and Archaeoblog.

The Giza Plateau was a hive of activity yesterday, reports Nevine El-Aref. In addition to the usual tourists roaming around the monuments, a group of Egyptian workmen, together with restorers and Egyptologists, were busy at work at the foot of the Sphinx, installing iron scaffolding around the body of the statue barely eight years after the decade-long project to restore it ended in 1998.

"The sphinx will always have to be looked after," Zahi Hawass, secretary- general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), told Al-Ahram Weekly. He explained that conservation work this time will include the re-casing of sections affected by air pollution and erosion as well as consolidating weak points in the statue's chest and neck...

Saving the Sphinx, again, Al-Ahram, Egypt, Issue No. 786, March 16 - 22, 2006.