They invited the furious men with their AK-47s to join them for tea. It's what you do in this part of the world, where hospitality is near obligatory and tea is its essential currency.

Moments earlier, the pair had barrelled into camp in a pickup, pointing those rifles and screaming in Arabic. Now, as they took refreshment in the punishing heat, James Harrell noticed their unfocused and agitated look.

Mr. [James] Harrell, a geologist and Egyptologist from the University of Toledo, wanted a photograph "of these two men with their crazy eyes and their AK-47s."

He tinkered with his camera settings until an Egyptian geologist in his entourage caught his eye. The man shook so violently, tea sloshed from his cup in tipsy waves, and now he was making low, frantic gestures...

Archaeological Geology of Ancient Egypt, James A. Harrell, University of Toledo.

University of Toledo geologist shows rock-steady resolve, Jenni Laidman, The Toledo Blade, Ohio, USA, May 13, 2007.

They have survived sandstorms and desert stillness, the fury of kings and the ravages of time, but the legendary Pyramids of Giza are endangered now — and the agent of their peril is a gloomy Egyptian stable-owner by the name of Hesham el-Ghabri.

Or so you might think.

"They forbid us to ride around the pyramids," grouses the owner of the TWA Stable ("Camel and Horse Riding"), one of countless such tourist-dependent operations clustered in the shadows of the brooding Sphinx and the three celebrated Pyramids of Giza. "They accuse of us being terrorists. They say we are going to bomb the pyramids."

"They" are high officials at Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities — the government body responsible for administering the Pyramids of Giza along with the rest of this country's innumerable ancient monuments — and they have not actually accused el-Ghabri and his ilk of being terrorists, although perhaps they might as well have.

"The people here have been handed a gold platter — the pyramids," storms Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the council. "Instead of guarding it, they (defecate) in it..."

Pyramids of Giza in peril, Ross Oakland, The Daily Star, Egypt, April 30, 2007.

“Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh’s Tomb” includes 126 reproductions of the most famous artefacts in the Tutankhamun hoard. Artisans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Field Museum and Egyptian institutions recreated King Tut’s state chariot, golden shrines, mummy case and, of course, his distinctive funerary mask.

It’s all laid out in the [Museum of the Rockies] main entry hall. Because of the open nature of the exhibit, security is noticeably more strict than usual in the hands-on museum. Children are required to be in close range of parents at all times, which can be frustrating when adults are soaking in the detailed information plaques while the kids are impatient to see the next artefact.

Beyond the Egyptology, MOR also plays host to a travelling exhibit of Pablo Picasso’s ceramic designs. The show features 65 plates, bowls, vases, pitchers and other creations Picasso and colleagues developed at the Madoura pottery workshop in Southern France between 1947 and 1971...

King Tut exhibit injects new life into ancient subject, Rob Chaney, The Missoulian, Montana, USA, May 14, 2007.

Beaux Arts will present Description de L’Egypte, the story of The Napoleonic Survey of Egypt. The art exhibit, consisting of 87 original prints from the historic publication, is the largest display of this incredible work ever held in the Southwest. The retrospective will open to the public Saturday, May 12, 2007 and run through Saturday, July 14, 2007.

Description de L’Egypte is a monumental production of 837 copper plate engravings and accompanying text produced by Napoleon Bonaparte’s savants, including more than 167 unsurpassed French scientists, surveyors, linguists, economists, physicians, engineers, artists and assistants. These scholars were hand selected by Napoleon to accompany his 1798-1801 military conquest of Egypt and document every aspect of the country. This publishing project of the French government utilized 400 engravers from 1802 to 1828. It is the foundation work of Egyptology and a masterpiece of illustration, striking in beauty and detail...

Beaux Arts Presents Description de L'Egypte, Art Daily, Mexico...