Our teacher is Dr Karin Sowada. Dr Sowada is a former curator of the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney and has worked on archaeological projects in Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Australia. She holds a PhD in Egyptian archaeology and is widely published on topics as diverse as mummification, Egyptian burial practices, ancient ceramics and Egyptian foreign relations.

Recommended reading
Richard Parkinson,
John Ray,
Alan K. Bowman,

Lesson 74: The Rosetta Stone, Dr Karin Sowada, 702 ABC Sydney, Australia, September 26, 2007. MP3 or ReadMedia.

The 136 miles between the capital and Alexandria is one of the busiest routes in the country, plied by buses, trains and despite the relatively short distance - and flights too.

However, the most sensible and comfortable way to enjoy the journey is by train. There are more than a dozen trains per day in each direction, but you should plumb for one of the three Turbini services. These French built trains are reliable and take just over two hours. A ticket costs just £5 each way in first class air-conditioned carriages.

The Espani (Spanish) trains cost the same as the Turbini, but stop at three stations en route, or there are the slower Francese (French) services, which are suburban-type trains that make a lot of stops. For the extra punishment on the slower trains, you'll save about £1 on the fare...

How to get from Cairo to Alexandria, Richard Green, The Times, UK, September 25, 2007.

Pacific Lutheran University faculty member Don Ryan will speak at 7 p.m. today about his team’s discovery of a missing Egyptian queen, Hatshepsut. The talk will be in the Scandinavian Cultural Centre at the Parkland university.

The team’s work has been chronicled by the Discovery Channel. Ryan will discuss finding the tomb and the process used to identify the mummy.

Ryan directs the Pacific Lutheran University Valley of the Kings Project, which focuses on obscure tombs in Egypt. The tomb and the mummy were discovered by Ryan’s team in 1989.

Queen Hatshepsut ruled during the 18th dynasty, between 1502 to 1482 B.C.

Professor to discuss mummy discovery, Debbie Cafazzo, The Tacoma News Tribune, Washington, USA, September 26, 2007.