The sarcophagus is beautiful — wooden, conformed to a woman’s shapely body, decorated with bright colours depicting a woman’s face and a multitude of small geometric shapes and mysterious symbols.

The sarcophagus is at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, one of the objects in the travelling British Museum exhibit of Egyptian art and funerary objects that will be in the capital until Nov. 26 [2006].

You don’t get buried in a casket like that today. You are put into a plain metal box with its adornment limited to the side carrying handles, and down you go.

With caskets like ours, it’s not worth getting excited about dying.

But from the amount of time the Egyptians devoted to death, they considered it a thing of importance...

Sketches: Ancient Egypt confronted terrorism, David Gerard, The Muskogee Phoenix, Oklahoma, USA, September 30, 2006.

A new exhibit at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia called Treasures of Ancient Egypt lets people crack the code with over 200 artefacts, from a tiny make-up pot to a full mummy coffin-set, on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

This exhibit on the gallery's entire third floor to Aug. 21 is "one of the most comprehensive and impressive samplings of Egyptian antiquity on view in our nation," says gallery director and chief curator Jeffrey Spalding.

"The Royal Ontario Museum would be proud to have it. In Montreal the Egyptian area is the size of these two rooms. Here it is very comprehensive and 7,000 years of history not 2,000 to 3,000..."

Exploring ancient treasures, Elissa Barnard, The Halifax Chronicle Herald, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 05, 2006.

Indiana Jones's adventures in archaeology had nothing on McGill Professor Bruce Trigger's, whose achievements were celebrated recently with the launch by McGill-Queen's University Press of . Armed with his keen intellect and theoretical empiricism, Trigger, in a career spanning almost 50 years, didn't need a bullwhip or the Raiders of the Lost Ark to make his mark on how archaeology is practiced around the world.

The book, edited by Ronald F. Williamson and Michael S. Bisson, contains articles written by an international Who's Who of archaeologists outlining Trigger's influence. It originated in a 2004 symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology. "There were at least 600 people there. I've attended these events for 30 years and I've never seen anything like it," recalled McGill anthropologist Michael Bisson. "It was so easy to get contributors." His co-editor, Ronald Williamson, a former student of Trigger's and now president of Archaeological Services Inc. in Toronto, said, "Just look at 's bibliography. No other scholar has one like it. He's a role model for all of us. An unattainable one, but a role model nonetheless."

In a field full of almost arcane specialists, Trigger was truly a Renaissance man. His work ranges from ancient Egypt to the aboriginal cultures in northeastern North America...

Honouring Bruce Trigger, Rena Okada, McGill Reporter, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 05, 2006.

The latest issue of the French language magazine “Toutankhamon” is out now.

Actualités :
Tombe 64 de la vallée des rois, avec interview de Nicholas Reeves

Découvertes:
Abydos, le 8e merveille du monde
Le flash : inoffensif !
Les papyrus médicaux

Egyptologie
L'armement au Nouvel Empire
Un relief amarnien à Assouan
Les techniques scientifiques au service de l'égyptologie
L'ours fut-il pharaonique ?

Dossier
69 énigmes de l'égypte ancienne !

Aventurier
Prisse d'Avennes

Voyager
Lac Nasser : une découverte sauvage
Mer rouge : au paradis des plongeurs

Which approximately says...

Current events:
Tomb 64 from the valley of the kings, an interview with Nicholas Reeves

Discovered
Abydos, 8th wonder of the world
The flash: inoffensive!
Medical papyri

Egyptology
The armament of the New Empire
An Amarna relief in Aswan
Scientific techniques with the Service of Egyptology
Was the bear Pharaonic?

File
69 enigmas of ancient Egypt!

Adventurer
Prisse d'Avennes

Travel
Lake Nasser: a wild discovery
Red Sea: a divers paradise

Toutankhamon Magazine, Editions Neptune Diffusion, France, Issue 29, October / November 2006.