Crush Creative, a southern California-based visual communications agency, is currently in the process of producing and installing large format banners and graphic displays for the “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” exhibit opening this month at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Crush created a wall-mounted imaged Broadway cloth mural with custom aluminium frame that was 16 feet high and 26 feet wide for the exhibit. The exhibit showcases nearly 120 artefacts and treasures from the tombs of Tut and his royal family, many which have never been outside of Egypt. Crush also produced Aertex banners and imaged Broadway cloth measuring 26 feet by 22 feet that hung throughout the exhibit. These graphics showed artefacts from the original excavation in 1922 as well as Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who discovered the tomb, laying his eyes on the boy king’s sarcophagus for the very first time...

Crush Creative Portrays Life And Death From The 18th Dynasty Egypt, EWorldWire, New jersey, USA, May 23, 2006.

Police on the Cycladic island of Paros said yesterday that they had arrested a 56-year-old woman for allegedly possessing a number of illegal antiquities, including nine sections of ancient columns.

Officers from the Attica police antiquities department had been on the island to chase up leads from the discovery of a huge stash of illegal artefacts on the nearby island of Schinoussa.

Policemen searched the house of an archaeologist who had allegedly worked in the past with Marion True, the former director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Illegal artefacts were confiscated from True’s villa on Paros last month. But officers did not find anything suspicious at the unnamed archeologist’s house.

During their investigation, however, they found a total of 11 illegal antiquities in the possession of the unnamed 56-year-old woman after searching her home and the hotel owned by her husband. The find is not thought to be connected with the Schinoussa case.

Arrest on Paros over artefacts, Kathimerini, Greece, May 23, 2006.

Mystery swirled around the Field Museum as partygoers gathered to see the unearthed treasures of King Tutankhamun and his lineage. The mood, created by Heffernan Morgan for the museum's Women's Board gala Saturday, married the fertile earth tones of the Nile with the opulent aesthetic of its inhabitants of centuries ago.

Gold-rich table settings, fresh palm trees and swags of royal blue fabric draped from the balcony in Stanley Field Hall helped illustrate the wonderment of the occasion: this Friday's opening of "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs." The four-city touring exhibition, organized by National Geographic, Arts and Exhibitions International and AEG Exhibitions, features nearly 130 pieces from the royal tomb of King Tut and other graves in the Valley of the Kings.

One can imagine the first time the tomb's contents of semiprecious stones, gold, precious wood, glass and alabaster — discovered by English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922 — gleamed brightly before the eyes of curious onlookers at the Cairo Museum, and then throughout the world between 1961 and 1981. The same amazement circulated at this event as attendees, equally stunning in their regal attire, talked of the exhibition's initial buzz in 1977 and now in 2006...

Tut and fans raise $1 million for Field, Chicago Sun-Times, Illinois, USA, May 24, 2006.

Chinese workers putting the finishing touches to a replica of an Egyptian sphinx in preparation for the opening of a park with an Egyptian theme in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 24, 2006. China's booming economy is granting it increased access to the world's market and culture.

Egyptian theme in Beijing, Yahoo! News, USA, May 24, 2006.