The latest issue of German language magazine Damals is an Egyptian special.

• Im Land der Pharaonen.
• Vollendung und Vollkommenheit
  von Heike Wilde.
• Jeder Ort ist voll von Ärzten
  von Prof. Dr. Heike Sternberg-el-Hotabi.
• Aufbewahrt für alle Zeiten
  von Daniel von Recklinghausen.
• Konserviert in Wüste, Moor und Eis
  von Dr. Wilfried Rosendahl.
• Die Welt der Toten
  von Marcus Müller.
• Der Jäger des versunkenen Schatzes
  von Uwe A. Oster.
• Die Entdeckungen des Unterwasserarchäologen Franck Goddio.

Which approximately says in English...

• In the land of the Pharaohs.
• Completion and perfection
  by Heike Wilde.
• Each place is full from physicians
  by Prof. Dr. Heike Sternberg-el-Hotabi.
• Saved for all time
  by Daniel von Recklinghausen.
• Conserved in desert, moorland and ice
  by Dr. Wilfried Rosendahl.
• The world of the dead
  by Marcus Müller.
• The hunter of the sunken treasures
  by Uwe A. Oster.
• The discoveries of the underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio.

Damals magazine , Konradin Medien GmbH, Germany, August 2007.

Such is [the Philadelphian's] brotherly love for the renowned boy-king who took the throne of Egypt in 1332 BC that more then 400,000 tickets were sold for the latest blockbuster exhibition, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, before it even opened in February at the Franklin Institute.

Philadelphia is treating this event as a golden opportunity to give itself over to a seven-month celebration of all things Egyptian. There's an important supplementary exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum, and a "Tut Trolley" bus to get you there. There are Egyptian menu options in many restaurants, Egyptian-style shop window displays, "mummy wrap" treatments at local spas, hotel-ticket packages and at least three different Tut-inspired cocktails invented by the city's glitzier bars.

But not even all this colourful self-promotion can outshine the glory of the objects on display...

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs runs until Sept. 30 [2007] at the Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia...

Tut's treasure comes to Philadelphia, Peter Neville-Hadley, The Montreal Gazette, Canada, August 04, 2007.

Floating down the Nile's muddy waters on any given day are soda cans, plastic bags, swimming boys, tourists on felucca boats, and patches of marsh grasses with small birds hitching a ride.

This summer, a crocodile joined the flotsam and jetsam. Or so it seems.

In the two weeks since the crocodile surfaced, its lore has grown to Loch Ness Monster proportions. There are no photos — yet — but the Egyptian media is abuzz. All that's clear is that an animal from the crocodilian family — perhaps a native Nile croc or a foreign alligator — has made its way to the urban waters of the northern Nile, something Cairenes say hasn't happened in living memory...

"There's quite a number [of Nile crocodiles] in Lake Nasser [in southern Egypt]. There's no reason why they can't drift further northward from there. But they've not been found near Cairo just because of people pressure..."

Crocodile Hunting On The Nile, Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor via CBS News, USA, August 07, 2007.

Visiting Italian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ugo Intini has expressed satisfaction over Egypt's nomination of Culture Minister Farouk Hosni for the post UNESCO President.

Intini says that his country supports Hosni as President of UNESCO.

Meanwhile, Hosni has approved a $2-million deposit into UNESCO's account to prepare a blueprint for the old-Cairo development project. The sum would be used to hire an international firm to survey the area.

Italy welcomes Hosni's nomination for President of UNESCO, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, August 08, 2007.

Previously:

Foreign ministry starts campaign for Hosni's UNESCO post nomination, August 07, 2007.

Egypt nominates Farouk Hosni for UNESCO top post, August 02, 2007.

Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 16, 2007, Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples is the first exhibition ever devoted to these fascinating yet enigmatic works. On view will be some 70 superb statues and statuettes created in precious metals and copper alloys including bronze (an alloy of copper and tin) over more than two millennia.

Through their long history, the ancient Egyptians used copper, bronze, gold, and silver to create lustrous, graceful statuary for their interactions with their gods — from ritual dramas in the temples and chapels that dotted the landscape to festival processions through the towns and countryside that were thronged by believers.

The exhibition will bring to New York masterpieces from around the world, including seven extremely rare inlaid and decorated large bronzes from the first half of the first millennium, the so-called Third Intermediate Period (1070 – 664 B.C.), the apogee of Egyptian metalwork. Among these will be the astonishing bronze statue of the priestess and noblewoman Takushit, the treasure of the Egyptian Collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Measuring some 27 inches (70 cm) in height and covered with a luminous latticework of divine figures and imagery in precious metal, this work has never before left Greece. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities...

Metropolitan Museum Presents Egyptian Metal Statuary, Huliq, USA, August 06, 2007.

Previously:

150 rare artefacts exhibited in New York and Switzerland, June 13, 2007.

A Norfolk museum has received a gift of paintings linked to the archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.

They are the work of relations of the Egyptologist Howard Carter who grew up in Swaffham.

The four pictures have been loaned to Swaffham Museum by Susan Allen, from Swaffham, and they include two landscape scenes by William Carter.

A third painting, that is signed by Henry Carter and dated 1916, is of Sporle Road House, in Swaffham. There is also a picture of a foal in a forest by HW Carter that was painted in 1885...

Tutankhaman tomb family's museum gift, Watton and Swaffham Times, UK, August 09, 2007.