After extensive computer modeling, University of Louisville J.B. Speed School of Engineering experts believe they have finally determined the gender of the 2,600-year-old Egyptian mummy called Then-Hotep. The mummy reposes in the science center's Discovery Gallery, where it's one of the most popular exhibits. It was removed from its grave in Egypt in 1903 during an archeological dig commissioned by the Egyptian government and was included in Egypt's national display at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

The Amarna Princess, Bolton Museum's statuette at the centre of a forgery scam, could be exhibited in the town again. After Judge William Morris ruled it should not be destroyed, it is possible that the Amarna Princess could be put on display once more in the town - this time in an exhibition telling her own remarkable story.

France has decided to bestow its top civilian award, the Legion of Honour to Egyptologist Christiane Desroches-Nobelcourt.

A U.S. Army helicopter pilot once stationed in Cairo will face charges of selling dozens of stolen Egyptian antiquities to a Texas art dealer, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. According to the complaint, Johnson was stationed in Cairo in September 2002, when 370 pre-dynastic artifacts were stolen from the Ma'adi Museum near Cairo. The Ma'adi antiquities, which date to 3000 B.C. and earlier, had been excavated from an archeological site in Egypt during the 1920s to 1930s.

In a positive step towards preserving the tomb’s murals, the Supreme Council of Antiquities decided to start a restoration project to preserve these murals in May 1st, 2008. Accordingly it will be closed for one year.

Some more information about the neolithic settlement that has been found recently.

Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni approved Saturday 9/2/2008 sending an Egyptian delegation from Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) to New York City to examine antiquities stolen by a US Army helicopter pilot. Chief Warrant Officer Edward George Johnson was arrested Tuesday in Alabama on charges of selling 370 Egyptian artifacts that were stolen from Cairo University excavation storehouse.

In the last few weeks, the University Museum at Southern Illinois University in the United States agreed to return a statue of a cat dating from the Ptolemaic era that had been illegally smuggled out of the country. In an ironic twist to the story the location of the cat only came about because the museum’s current director Dona Bachman, sent a letter to the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) asking for approval to exhibit the artefact as part of the museum’s collection, and requesting more details about the object and the archaeological site where it was originally found.

Historic Qurna on the Theban necropolis is no more, but the reputation of its inhabitants as bandits and thieves lingers on and the site lacks attention. Apart from a few of the most decorative and brightly-decorated mud-brick houses, most of the homes belonging to the people, known as Qurnawis, have been demolished.

Yet another press report about the recently found neolithic settlement in the Fayum.