My daughter Dana, granddaughters Meredith, aged 10, and Remy, eight, and I have just returned from an exhausting, but very short trip to Chicago. It was wonderful!

Chicago is straight north from Holly Springs — and it's about a 10-hour trip by car. Unless you get lost, then it's more like 11-12. And I always get lost..!

[T]he very best thing about Chicago was the reason we drove 10-11 hours one way — The Field Museum. This huge, wonderful, beautiful building houses exhibits from everywhere and about everything — ranging from the days of Pompeii to Gregor Mendel, the evolution of our planet, bugs, Auschwitz and Black Sue (more about her later), King Tutankhamun and the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt.

The King Tut exhibit was breathtaking. We actually saw the coffin — beautifully carved and gilded with gold and wonderful colours.

For me, the most exquisite piece there was the Canopic jar lid with the famous head of King Tut. I could have stood there for hours and looked at it...

The Windy City's Field Museum blew us away, Linda Jones, Borders Today, Scotland, UK, August 17, 2006.

Over the last ten years, exhibition "Mysteries of Ancient Egypt Itinerant Museum" has been travelling Brazilian states taking replicas and original items from the past of the Arab country. This time, the show is in the country capital, Brasília, and includes 70 articles, of which 16 are original, belonging to Brazilian researcher Maisur Musa, who is a son of Palestinian immigrants.

"The objective behind the fair is to transmit knowledge about the history of civilization," stated Musa, who is the organizer of the event. The exhibition was opened on Thursday (17) and follows through to September 20, at the Conjunto Nacional .

Mummies, sarcophagi, papyruses, weapons, coins and vases are some of the articles exhibited at the fair. Among the objects, Musa pointed out the mask of pharaoh Tutankhamun, the bust of Nefertiti and an antique statue of Venus...

A trip to ancient Egypt in Brasília, Marina Sarruf, Brazil-Arab News Agency, Brazil, August 21, 2006.

The Brooklyn Museum of Art presents the exhibit Egypt Through Other Eyes: The Popularization of Ancient Egypt. The show is presenting more than thirty books from the Museum’s Libraries, documents Western fascination with ancient Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Showcasing many works never before on public view, the exhibition includes rare material from the Museum’s Wilbour Library of Egyptology, one of the world’s most comprehensive Egyptological research collections.

During the nineteenth century, publications on Egypt multiplied as advances in printing technology allowed for the production of larger and cheaper editions of travel literature and history books, as well as newspapers and periodicals. Scholarly publications had an increasing impact on popular culture in Europe and America, especially on architecture, fashion, and literature. The exhibition covers the generation of explorers and scholars who were inspired by Description de l’Égypte, published from 1809 to 1827. The images on view demonstrate the allure that Egypt has long held for a Western audience.

Included is an illustrated plate from a rare book by Giovanni Belzoni, one of the first Europeans to excavate Egyptian temples and tombs. Other works include a catalogue and poster for the first major North American exhibition of Egyptian antiquities of the Abbott collection, now part of the Brooklyn Museum collection. Also on view are chromolithographs from books by Émile Prisse D’Avennes, whose work provided the earliest reliable images of Egyptian architecture, and a book by Charles Dana Gibson, depicting the Temple of the goddess Mut, where the Brooklyn Museum and Johns Hopkins University currently maintain an excavation site...

Egypt Through Other Eyes: The Popularization, Art Daily, Mexico, August 22, 2006.

Cairo Governor Abdel Azim Wazir accidentally came across an ancient tomb while inspecting new extensions on the autostrade.

Digging work has led to two sarcophagi made of lime stone. The governor notified Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni.

Experts from the Supreme Council for Antiquities will inspect the monument.

Two ancient sarcophagi found in Cairo, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, August 14, 2006.