According to [Walter] Bower, the Scottish people were not an amalgam of Picts, Scots and other European peoples, but were in fact Egyptians, who could trace their ancestry directly back to a pharaoh's daughter and her husband, a Greek king.

The queen's name was Scota — from where comes the name Scotland. The Greek king was Gaythelos — hence Gaelic, and their son was known as Hiber — which gives us Hibernia.

According to tradition, this royal family was expelled from Egypt during a time of great uprising. They sailed west, settling initially in Spain before travelling to Ireland and then on to the west coast of Scotland. This same race of people eventually battled and triumphed over the Picts to become the Scots — the people who united this country.

But now a new book, , by Ralph Ellis, claims to prove that this origin myth was no made-up story but the actual recording of an Egyptian exodus that did indeed conclude in Scotland...

The name Ralph Ellis should set the alarm bells ringing.

The pharaoh's daughter who was the mother of all Scots, Diane MacLean, The Scotsman, Scotland, UK, September 14, 2006.

Having recently regained a number of its own disputed antiquities, Greece now hosts a historical exhibit focusing on centuries of archaeological loot, from the creation of early collections at European museums to the pillage of Baghdad in 2003...

The exhibit also seeks to demonstrate the disruptive effects of art looting on archaeologists' understanding of ancient civilisations.

"An isolated ancient object may have commercial and aesthetic value... but what is important is the context of its discovery: where it was found, at what depth, next to which other object," said Averov.

"For example, out of around 1,600 statues of the Cycladic period (3200-2000 BC), only 143 were legally excavated," he added. "The rest were removed under unclear circumstances, and as a result we know very little of this civilisation..."

Greece hosts multimedia exhibit on looted antiquities, TODAYonline, September 15, 2006.

The output of 45 years of Polish archaeologists’ work in Sudan will be presented during an exhibition — “In the sun and desert” at the National Museum in Warsaw.

Magdalena Rościszewska from the Museum’s Promotions Department informs that artefacts borrowed from the National Museum in Khartoum will also be exhibited. Artefacts, which have not been presented or conserved in the National Museum laboratories will also be shown to the public.

Pottery and architectural decorations, epitaphs with Coptic and Greek inscriptions as well as small household utensils will be presented. The exhibition will include photos taken by Polish archaeologists in Sudan, printed on boards. The photos include the churches and Holy Trinity Monastery in Old Dongola as well as Banganarti with the centre of cult of archangel Raphael, numerously visited by pilgrims, which was recently discovered by Polish archaeologists.

The remaining photos presented at the exhibition show the work of Poznań Archaeological Museum’s mission, which has been running excavations at the Neolithic site in Kadero since 1972, as well as ones from the State Archaeological Museum in Gdansk...

“In the Sun and Desert” — National Museum, Science & Scholarship in Poland, Poland, September 06, 2006.