The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) held a ceremony in Cairo marking the International Museum Day.

During the event, a gallery of rare archival pictures of most important archaeological discoveries in Sinai since 1980 opened.

A short documentary was aired on the renovation and modernisation works carried out by the SCA at existing museums and new ones to be inaugurated soon.

On his part, Zahi Hawass, the SCA Secretary-General, honoured a number of veterans who played a key role in museums renovation and modernisation works.

Hawass said some 16 museums will be set up in the future nationwide, adding that these museums would be provided with up-to-date display equipment.

Egypt marks international museum day, new 16 museums to be set up, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, July 02, 2007.

Egypt will run DNA tests on an unidentified mummy to determine whether it is the pharaoh Tuthmosis I, who ruled over a period of military expansion and extensive construction, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday.

Egypt's chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass said the findings would be compared with DNA from mummies of known members of Tuthmosis's family, including Queen Hatshepsut, whose mummy was identified last week, and Kings Tuthmosis II and III, according to MENA.

Hawass said on Wednesday that he had recently concluded that a mummy once assumed to be that of Tuthmosis I was not in fact his, but belonged to a much younger man who died from an arrow wound...

Egypt to use DNA tests to identify pharaoh Tuthmosis, Reuters, UK, July 03, 2007.

cf. Egypt to use DNA tests to identify mummy, Reuters via The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, July 04, 2007.

cf. Egypt to use DNA tests to identify pharaoh Tuthmosis, Reuters via Scientific American, USA, July 03, 2007.