Jan Assmann receives the Charles Veillon award for his essay "Die Mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus" (German article).

Remains of an ancient dam dating back some 4,000 years have been discovered in Upper Egypt, local English daily The Egyptian Gazette reported Sunday. Secretary-General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass said Saturday that the ancient dam was found a few meters away from the Karnak Temple in Luxor, some 500 km south of Cairo.

The world's first triangular coin is entering circulation to commemorate the return of Tutankhamun's treasures to London.

An Egyptian mummy nearly 3,000 years old is to be examined using the latest in NHS imaging technology. Nesperennub, a male body enclosed in a linen and plaster case within a one and a half metre-long coffin, will have a whole-body computerised tomography (CT) at University College Hospital on Monday to see if it will yield any more of its secrets.

Italy will provide more than 1.3 million euros (1.9 million dollars) to renovate the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the countries' culture ministers announced on Thursday.

Houghton Library’s collection of papyri consists of 84 manuscripts dating from the 3rd century BC to the 6th century AD. Most of the papyri come from Oxyrhynchus, but there are also papyri from Hibeh and from the Fayûm. This Web site provides strategies for searching Houghton's papyri as well as links to bibliographies related to these materials that were compiled by the Library.

A team led by a Cardiff University archaeologist has reconstructed a 3,000-year-old glass furnace at Amarna, showing that Ancient Egyptian glassmaking methods were much more advanced than previously thought.

Almost 60 mud brick houses were demolished Sunday near tombs in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor after security forces used tear gas to force out residents, according to inhabitants. For the past half century, local authorities and officials in Egypt's antiquities department have been trying to move inhabitants out of the Gurna area adjacent to the Pharaonic era tombs of the Valley of the Kings.

A series of surprising discoveries has been made at the foot of Egypt's famous Temple of Amun at Karnak, archaeologists say. The new finds include ancient ceremonial baths, a pharaoh's private entry ramp, and the remains of a massive wall built some 3,000 years ago to reinforce what was then the bank of the Nile River.

Online review of the new biography of the egyptian egyptologist Labib Habachi by Jill Kamil.