Under the auspices of Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) will inaugurate a pharaonic exhibition on Thursday at the Egyptian Museum entitled “archaeological secrets from the basement.”

The exhibition came within the framework of the SCA’s efforts to highlight some treasure of its collection that were hidden for decades in the basement of the Egyptian museum.

Dr. Hawass said that the exhibition which will be held at room number 44 at the museum’s first floor displays for the first time 58 objects of the 12th dynasty, Middle Kingdom discovered in 1922 by the British archaeologist Wan Bright inside the tomb of Prince Gaphay Hapi III in the upper Egyptian city of Assiut...

Exciting new exhibition at the Egyptian Museum, Zahi Hawass, The Plateau, Guardian's Egypt, March 09, 2007.

Dr. Zahi Hawass secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) received yesterday a report concerning a French production cartoon called “Princess of the Sun” which relates an imaginary story about the monotheistic king Akhenaten and his family.

March 13 [2007] will be its world premiere in Egypt, at the foot step of the Great pyramid.

According to the report presented by a technical and scientific committee headed by Sabri Abel Aziz, head of the ancient Egyptian department in the SCA, the film is a fantasy of the French writer who inspired its story from a perplexing era of king Akhenaten’s reign.

The film includes of several historical mistakes and has nothing in relation with real political, historical, religious and military events that happened in that time...

Princess of the Sun, Zahi Hawass, The Plateau, Guardian's Egypt, March 09, 2007.

Previously: Christian Jacq book being filmed, January 16, 2007.