Before the Kimbell Art Museum opens “Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh” on Sunday, bone up on your mummy myths and facts [with this quiz]...

I expect nothing less than 100%!

Trivia: Ancient Egypt 101, Shannon Sutlief, The Dallas Morning News, Texas, USA, August 25, 2006.

See how the former King of Egypt lived when you browse about the Egyptian Museum, located in Cairo, Egypt. More than 120,000 items can be found at this museum, ranging from ancient sculptures to alluring artefacts hailing from the tomb of King Tut. With a collection boasting intriguing items from around the world, the British Museum in London is a great alternative for the Egyptian Museum, which offers the largest ancient Egyptian art outside of Cairo. Although this museum is home to roughly 7 million artefacts, you will have the opportunity to visit 4 million of these highly regarded gems...

The Most Visited Worldwide Museums, Yona Williams, Associated Content, Colorado, USA, August 29, 2006.

Archaeologists moving graves in an old cemetery discovered something that looks like it came straight out of ancient Egypt.

Dan Allen, an archaeologist hired by developers, has seen it all over the years while clearing coffins and bodies.

But, a discovery made Tuesday is rare. Allen and other archaeologists found a pre-Civil War cast-iron coffin shaped like an Egyptian mummy while moving a cemetery for developers at a site on Whites Creek Pike in North Nashville.

“I've only seen three of these in my life,” Allen said...

Mummy-Shaped Coffin Found While Moving Cemetery, News Channel 5, Tennessee, USA, August 29, 2006.

cf. Video footage: Mummy-Shaped Coffin Found While Moving Cemetery, News Channel 5, Tennessee, USA, August 29, 2006.

The key issue for scholars in evaluating the volcano's effect is in resolving a dispute over the exact time of the eruption, Cline says. Some archaeologists, based on pottery and ancient Egyptian inscriptions, put the date at 1500 B.C. Experts in radiocarbon dating put it further back, to at least 1600 B.C. In April, a pair of new radiocarbon reports in Science magazine, one based on leaves and twigs buried in the eruption, overlapped to pin the date to between 1613 to 1627 B.C. Egyptologists such as Manfred Bietak of Austria's University of Vienna told Science they were unimpressed with the new dates however, so the debate continues...

Ye gods! Ancient volcano could have blasted Atlantis myth, Dan Vergano, USA Today, New York, USA, August 27, 2006.

cf. New Carbon Dates Support Revised History of Ancient Mediterranean, Michael Balter, Science, USA, Vol. 312. no. 5773, pp. 508 - 509, April 28, 2006.

cf. Santorini Eruption Radiocarbon Dated to 1627-1600 B.C., Walter L. Friedrich, Bernd Kromer, Michael Friedrich, Jan Heinemeier, Tom Pfeiffer, Sahra Talamo, Science, USA, Vol. 312. no. 5773, p. 548, April 28, 2006.

cf. Chronology for the Aegean Late Bronze Age 1700-1400 B.C., Sturt W. Manning, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Walter Kutschera, Thomas Higham, Bernd Kromer, Peter Steier, Eva M. Wild, Science, USA, Vol. 312. no. 5773, pp. 565 - 569, April 28, 2006.