A report about the recently found statue of queen Tiye at the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III on Luxor's West Bank with several fotos.

The birthday of the institute, located in Prague, will be celebrated with a series of exhibitions in Egypt as well as in the Czech Republic. President Václav Klaus will open one exhibit in Cairo April 7. Two others are also planned for Prague, one at Liechtenstein Palace April 17, and the other this fall at the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures. The institute is also publishing several books about its five decades of achievements.

Fixing and developing the Nazlet Al-Semman drainage system is the main solution to the problem of the rising water table in front of the Sphinx.

Preliminary results from DNA tests carried out on a mummy believed to be Queen Hatshepsut is expected to support the claim by Egyptian authorities that the remains are indeed those of Egypt’s most powerful female ruler. Dr Angelique Corthals, a biomedical Egyptologist at the University of Manchester (UK), says that DNA tests she helped carry out with colleagues at the National Research Centre in Cairo have promising preliminary results suggesting the identity of the queen.

Egypt announced today the discovery of a quartzite ushabti figure along with the cartouche of King Seti I. A number of clay vessels were also unearthed along with fragments of the tomb's wall paintings which may have fallen after its discovery.

Last year, a stone anchor bearing hieroglyphic inscriptions was discovered, by chance, off the shores of Kyrenia, a significant port city in northern Cyprus. Examined by professional diver Tevfik Camgöz, the historic artifact was sent by authorities in northern Cyprus to the British Museum's Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. After a number of examinations, experts found the anchor to be 3,000 years old and that it has no equal in the world.

A team of archaeologists have unearthed a Greek temple in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria, showing that the Greeks worshipped pharonic deities more than 2,500 years ago.

Archaeologists have discovered two gold coins in the Sinai peninsula dating to the era of Eastern Roman Emperor Valens that are the first of their kind to be found in Egypt, its antiquities council said on Sunday.

Egypt has demanded the US to return 80 artifacts dating back to the pre-dynastic era, which were stolen by a US pilot during a visit to the country, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawwas said after he returned from the United States where he delivered his testimony in a case brought by Egypt against a US pilot accused of smuggling the artifacts from the country.

Next year the site of the Colossi of Memnon will be worked over completely: Two giant statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III will be erected just a hundred metres (328 feet) behind the two existing colossi that mark the entrance to the mortuary temple. Another two statues, still half-buried, will also be returned to their former upright position in the years to come.