The popular [lecture] series begins its 71st season October 17 [2007]. The lectures are presented in the Saroyan Theatre in downtown Fresno. All programs begin at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday dates. The basic cost is $75 for the entire series, or $20 for individual speakers (single lecture tickets must be purchased day of the event).

There also is a post-lecture lunch and a chance to meet the speaker. Lunch tickets cost $110 for the series, or $23 per lunch event...

February 20 [2007]: . He is a noted Egyptologist and philosophy professor at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. He's appeared on television and has earned the nickname "Mr. Mummy" for his expertise. His topic: "The Murder of King Tutankhamen..."

We have lots to talk about, Felicia Cousart Matlosz, The Fresno Bee, California, USA, September 01, 2007.

Sunday Mirror: You’re back with your new show, Paranormal Egypt. Tell us about it.

Derek Acorah: The energy and adrenalin in Egypt was like nothing I’ve ever felt before. I’m still tingling. Even Sam (Derek’s spirit guide) was taken aback. He said he felt at home. He’s Ethiopian and lived 2,000 years ago, but he knew there were a lot of Ethiopians in Ancient Egypt, and he was telling me the spirits were thrilled I was there.

SM: What sort of investigations did you do there?

DA: Well, I communicated with the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, the greatest ever female Pharaoh. And I conversed with Tutankhamun and was told how he really died...

Paranormal Egypt is on LivingTV, UK, on Tuesday September 4, 2007, at 10PM.

Egypt's top antiquities official was down in the fabled tomb of Tutankhamen a few weeks ago — doing a television interview, of all things — when he noticed something curious he had never seen before.

In a back room closed to public view, Zahi Hawass spotted a cluster of reed boxes crammed with plaster fragments and limestone seals used to stamp hieroglyphs. Intrigued, the scholar took a closer look and saw that both were marked with a trio of icons — sun, scarab and basket — whose meaning he recognized instantly:

Neb-kheperu-re, the throne name of the boy pharaoh.

Eighty-five years after his tomb was discovered, and after his treasures have been ogled by millions of museumgoers, King Tut is still revealing surprises. Besides the seals, apparently left behind by the original excavators in the early 1920s, Egyptian workers recently found 20 sealed jars with the pharaoh's name in an old storage facility nearby. Neither group of items is part of the Tut inventory at Cairo's Egyptian antiquities museum.

On Thursday, Hawass visits Philadelphia to speak about these surprises and another: For the first time, Tut's mummified body will go on public display, protected in a climate-controlled case in his tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings...

Tut's tomb yields more surprises, The Arizona Daily Star, Arizona, USA, September 02, 2007.

cf. Tut still revealing secrets, Tom Avril, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, USA, September 01, 2007.

A high ambition to exert power paved the way for the Egyptians to emerge as one of the greatest civilizations of the ancient world, according to a new study by an Uruguayan Egyptologist.

Professor Juan José Castillos of the Uruguayan Institute of Egyptology, said in his study that the roots of the Egyptian civilisation lay in the attitude of those individuals, who are called "aggrandisers" by some specialists — including anthropologists, social scientists, historians, and sociologists.

He said "aggrandisers" have appeared in many different moments of the Human history and pre-history. Among these characters, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, and Stalin are people who had a great power thirst, probably due to a genetic predisposition, who were usually unhappy, and who sometimes caused tragedies.

"In many different periods, though, they have somehow contributed for the advancement of their societies," he said...

Egyptian civilization's greatness due to their high ambition to exert power, ANI via Daily India, India, September 03, 2007.

cf. Uruguayan has theory on the evolution of Egypt, ANBA, Brazil, August 31, 2007.