Professor Robert Connolly, an anatomist who is working with Egyptian authorities to analyse the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh, says that preliminary tests on the mummified remains of the two still-born babies indicate that Tutankhamun may have fathered them both. He will present the new findings at the Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt Conference at the University of Manchester today.

he U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced Thursday that it would help Egypt build an underwater museum in the Bay of Alexandria on the Mediterranean. The idea for a museum, located by Cleopatra's Palace and the mythical Alexandria Lighthouse also known as Pharos, comes amid growing recognition of the importance of underwater cultural heritage. The museum, the first of its kind, will be partly above water and partly submerged where visitors will be able to see archaeological artifacts on the seabed, according to a press release by UNESCO.

Switzerland is to return a pharaoh's "eye" stolen 36 years ago from the statue of King Amenhotep III, Egypt's culture minister announced on Wednesday. "The eye is around 50 centimetres (19 inches) long and was stolen from Amenhotep III's statue, which was discovered in 1970 in his Luxor temple," Faruk Hosni said in a statement. The eye was stolen in 1972 when a fire broke out around the temple.

The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has finalized setting up the first national museum for the antiquities of Rosetta city in Beheira Governorate, as well as the completion of renovation of the antiquities of the historical city. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni said that during the coming week, Rosetta museum will be inaugurated at a total cost of L.E. 4 million. A garden and the halls of the museum have been set up within the framework of renovating the monuments of the city that aim at preserving the historic character.

A team of Egyptian archeologists have unearthed the remains of a three-thousand-year-old temple belonging to Pharaoh Ramses II to the east of the country's capital in the Ain Shams area.

In early September the United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, announced it is funding a team to determine if such a museum is feasible. If built, the museum could display treasures and monuments of her palace, which once stood on an island in one of the largest human-made bays in the world but were submerged by earthquakes from the fourth century A.D. onward.

The committee to establish Egypt's proposed underwater museum will have its first meeting next month in Alexandria.

The project comes as part of SCA’s plan to archive Egypt’s monumental areas that will also include the Pyramids and Saqqara. The SCA will also conduct research to enhance urban planning around archeological sites while studying the effect of sand storms, wind streams. The research will entail suggesting methods to protect them from ecological and human threats especially underground and mineral water.

Egyptian archaeologists located the pink, granite monument at a site in Tell Basta. The great king's nose had been broken and his beard was missing, said Zahi Hawass, the head of the country's supreme council of antiquities. "The discovery is important because it may indicate that the excavators are close to the ruins of a major temple of Ramses II in the area".