Good news, Australia: after 30 years of doubt, experts have established that your mummy is a woman after all.

The prize specimen in the Australian Museum's small Egyptology collection was donated a century ago, with little information on what lay beneath the bandages.

The paintings on its willow sarcophagus depicted the death of a woman — but X-rays in the 1970s seemed to reveal a man's skeleton...

Unravelled: the mystery of Egypt's lady-in-waiting, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, March 30, 2006.

The following website has a couple of pictures of the statue they found.

EGIPTOLOGIA.pl. You can try translating it using Poltran.com

Egypt is topic of lecture Robert Littman, a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will give a presentation titled "The Valley of the Golden Mummies: The Bahariya Oasis, Mummies, Health and Disease in Ancient Egypt" at 7:30 p.m. April 7 [2006] in Room 238 of the Smith Memorial Student Union at Portland State University.

Littman's lecture, which is sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, is free and open to the public...

SCIENCE NEWS AND EVENTS, The Oregonian, Oregon, USA, March 29, 2006.

KARMA never sleeps. When people steal from other people, redress always comes, though maybe not for a long time and in unexpected forms. Because the history of art is, in large part, a history of theft, karmic action is always at work. Somewhere, it's always payback time.

We got a juicy taste of this recently, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art, after decades of stonewalling, agreed to return several possibly stolen — that is, illegally excavated — objects to Italy, one being the famous Euphronios krater. Yet the Met affair was small potatoes compared with orgies of art larceny in the not-so-distant past.

Under Napoleon, French armies hauled ton after ton of Pharaonic sculpture from Egypt and back to Paris. Around the same time, the British were shipping the Elgin marbles to London. Later in Africa, in 1897, British troops, in a punishing mood, stripped clean the ivories and bronzes from the altars and palaces of the West African kingdom of Benin and sent those exquisite objects home, too...

Who Owns Art?, The New York Times, New York, USA, march 29, 2006.