Legendary land of the Pharaohs and home of the goddess Isis and her husband Osiris, god of fertility and ruler of the afterlife — Egypt is a magical place for a holiday.

This fabled north-east African country — with its face to the Mediterranean, its back to the desert and flanked by the Red Sea — exudes a serious sense of the exotic.

Tutankhamen, the great Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza, the Valleys of the Kings and Queens, Abu Simbel — these are all names which cause a frisson of excitement.

And to such wonders of the ancient world, Egypt has added the modern Aswan Dam...

Travel: Fit for the Gods... Ancient and modern Egypt will change your Life, Aine Hegarty, Red Nova, USA, April 21, 2007.

[I]f it weren't for Terry Wilfong, of the University of Michigan, [a] part of Tamesia's burial papyrus would not come true.

Mr. Wilfong's painstaking interpretation of the papyrus, owned by the Toledo Museum of Art, is helping her name live forever — or at least through today — just like the papyrus promised.

Mr. Wilfong is among 100 presenters keeping ancient Egypt alive during the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Research Centre in Egypt. The meeting continues through [Sunday] at the Toledo Riverfront Hotel...

The papyrus of Tamesia is a window into a world where people continued to cling to the ancient practices of Egyptian religion, even as their world changed. Already, many spoke Greek in daily life, and saw the growing influence of that culture...

Tamesia's burial papyrus is nearly 12 feet long and 10 inches high, it is abbreviated compared to the book of the dead that would have accompanied her to the afterlife in earlier times...

Egyptologists keep ancient world fresh, Jenni Laidman, The Toledo Blade, Ohio, USA, April 21, 2007.