After a 2,000-year lapse, Egypt is looking to again acquire a gold-mining industry by revisiting ancient deposits of the precious mineral that symbolised the glory of the Pharaohs...

In the early 1990s, [Josef al-Raghy's] father Sami ... was inspired to look into the Red Sea Hills' mining potential when he saw an old papyrus map dating back to 1,200 BC in a Turin museum.

The ancient document, believed to be the oldest geological map in the world, showed the locations of ancient pharaonic mines in the inauspicious desert which stretches from the Nile south of Luxor to the Red Sea...

In Pharaohs' footsteps, Egypt eyes new gold-mining era, AFP via Turkish Press, Turkey, September 24, 2006.

cf. previously on this blog: Pharaonic Goldmine.

An Egyptian mummy dating back thousands of years is to go on display at Frankie Howerd's former home.

The mummy and other Egyptian artefacts were presented to the comedy legend in the 1970s after he appeared in a tourism advertising campaign.

Priceless gifts from the Italian Government which include paintings and statues will also be on display at Wavering Down House in Cross at the Up Pompeii show on September 23 [2006].

The artefacts used to be kept in a bomb shelter in the grounds of the house until they were valued and sent to London to be stored...

Frankie's Roman relics revealed, Weston & Somerset Mercury, UK, September 21, 2006.

Frankie Howerd website.

While carrying out a survey on the archaeological valleys and hills on Luxor's West Bank, in an attempt to locate sites used by the Copts, an archaeological mission of the French Institute for Oriental Studies has unearthed a significant number of clay sherds dating back to the Coptic era (451 - 641 AD).

The survey also aimed at drawing an archaeological map for these Coptic sites by using the GPS technique as well as documenting and studying all inscriptions and potteries found. The General Director of Antiquities in Upper Egypt, said that the team also found several objects, dating back to the ancient Egyptian, Greco-Roman and Coptic eras.

In Haggag Valley Aspaniya, the team succeeded in locating six Coptic archaeological sites, one of which includes a cave with bent corridors covered with gypsum and bearing Coptic inscriptions...

Coptic artefacts found in Luxor, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, September 24, 2006.