More than 190,000 tickets have been reserved for a blockbuster exhibition on the treasures of Tutankhamun.

Twelve weeks before the show opens at the O2, the advance interest has proved even bigger than during its four city tour of the United States.

Most reservations have been made by tour companies but individual members of the public have registered for around 38,000 tickets.

The box office will go live on 12 September — the day before the other autumn blockbuster, the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China, opens at the British Museum. That show has sold 77,000 tickets to members of the public so far.

Bryan Harris, the Tutankhamun show's head of marketing, said the London audience was expected to top the 1.2 million people who will have seen it in Philadelphia when it closes there next month...

Treasures of the boy king return, Louise Jury, This is London, UK, August 29, 2007.

How they died is still a mystery.

But medical scans performed last week clearly show how the two ancient Egyptian mummies on display at Davenport’s Putnam Museum were preserved.

Puncture holes, incisions and rolled-up linens seen inside the two bodies — now verified as that of a man and a woman — offer important clues about the mummification process used thousands of years ago, museum curator Eunice Schlichting said Tuesday.

Now, the investigation continues.

The museum is seeking an Egyptologist or cultural anthropologist to further study the CT ... scans of the mummies that were donated last week by Genesis Medical Centre...

CT scans show how mummies were preserved, Kay Luna, Quad-City Times, Iowa, USA, August 29, 2007.

Previously:

Putnam Mummies' exodus to Genesis goes well, August 24, 2007.

Iowa museum mummies to undergo CT scans, August 20, 2007.

Buddies can find out more about their ‘mummies’ at a special event with more than a touch of Eastern promise.

Artefacts from ancient Egypt will go on show at a special hands-on exhibition in Paisley Museum.

And those who go along will get their just ‘desserts’ at the display which features the contents of an archaeologist’s trunk.

Items on show will include ornaments, sacred objects and household utensils from the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh as well as Paisley Museum’s own collection.

The exhibition opens at the Museum in the High Street on Thursday, September 6 [2007], before touring Renfrewshire communities in the New Year.

Touch of Egypt at museum, The Paisley Daily Express, Scotland, UK, August 29, 2007.

"Tourism in Egypt is witnessing remarkable boom with an increase of number of tourists by 13 percent in the year 2006/2007 compared to the past year," said Minister of Tourism Zohair Garana on Monday in his speech to the first session of the second day of a forum of Egyptian expatriates.

Garana noted that around 9.7 million tourists visited Egypt during the said period compared to 8.6 million in 2005/2006.

"Also, tourist nights increased to reach 92.3 million at total revenues of $8.2 billion in the said period compared to 85.1 million nights at revenue of $7.2 billion in the past year," he added.

Garana: Remarkable Boom in tourists visiting = Egypt, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, August 28, 2007.

Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni agreed to establish an exhibition for the Egyptian monuments in the French Valentine city under the name "Pharaonics". The exhibition will move from Bahrain to France after being in el-Manama for 6 months.

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that the exhibition will be opened in the French City mid October and will roam 6 European Countries. He added that the exhibition will remain for about two years and will include 112 monuments.

He also said that they agreed with the French side to allocate $200 million for the exhibition insurance against any terror actions or natural disasters, adding that the French side will pay the fees of moving the exhibition from Bahrain to Valentine.

Egyptian exhibition in 7 EU Countries, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, August 17, 2007.

Previously:

Treasures of ancient Egypt draw 15,000, July 18, 2007.