Thursday, December 15, 2005

Tutankhamun - the never ending story

Hawass opens Tutankhamun exhibition
http://tinyurl.com/8dqvv (State Information Service)
"Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawwas opens on Wednesday "Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs Exhibition" in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Hawwas will hold a press conference following the opening ceremony in which he will highlight the recent scientific findings by a team of Egyptian experts after inspecting the mummy of the young Pharaoh, using developed Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT) scanning. He said that holding the Tutankhamen exhibition in a number of US cities had scored record revenues ($ 9 million so far)".

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As to the rest, I have skimmed these pages to make sure that there's nothing offensive on them, but apart from that I haven't read them - I've just about read all I can bear to on the subject. So apologies if there are replications of pages copied between online news resources.

BusinessWire wesbite summary of the exhibition (press release):
http://tinyurl.com/8tphu (BusinessWire)

Construction work carries on over night:
http://tinyurl.com/bgqwo (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Reveling in ancient Egyptian style:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13403270.htm

Exhibition opens to fanfare:

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