Pieces of Amenhotep III And Tiye Statue Found
		Issue : 01-2011 Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny announced that six missing pieces from the colossal double statue of the 18th Dynasty King Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye, have been discovered at the Medinet Habu on Luxor’s west bank. The double statue is currently a centerpiece of the main hall at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

	Peru succeeds in getting 4000 objects back home!
		Issue : 01-2011 Between 1911 and 1915, Hiram Bingham III conducted excavations at Machu Picchu in Peru in conjunction with Yale University. Over the course of Bingham’s work, he uncovered more than 4,000 objects, which he requested to take back to Yale for study and temporary exhibition. In the original contract Bingham agreed to give back the objects after 18 months

	Statuary fragments uncovered in Luxor
		Issue : 01-2011 Two red granite statuary fragments of King Amenhotep III were unearthed this week at Amenhotep III’s (1410 – 1372 BC) mortuary temple on the west bank of Luxor.

	Egypt received 200 artifacts from Al-Ahly National Bank
		Issue : 11-2010 The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) received 200 artifacts from Al-Ahly National Bank yesterday and have stored them in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo for restoration and documentation. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny, announced that .

	Discovering 12 statues found in the Avenue of the Sphinxes
		Issue : 11-2010 Mr. Farouk Hosny, Minister of Culture, announces that the expedition of the Supreme Council of Antiquities at the Avenue of the Sphinxes found today twelve new sphinx statues from the reign of Nectanebo I (380-362 BC). These sphinx statues were found in the last sector of the Avenue of the Sphinxes.

	Metropolitan to return 19 objects from King Tutankhamun’s tomb
		Issue : 11-2010 Under the auspices of Farouk Hosny, the Minister of Culture, Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, and Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, announced

	King Tut to travel to Australia
		Issue : 11-2010 Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny, announced that the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition will travel to Melbourne, Australia at the beginning of April 2011.

	New Discovery dating to the reign of King Thuthmose IV at Giza
		Issue : 11-2010 An Egyptian archaeological mission directed by Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), has discovered a large mud brick wall dating to the reign of King Thuthmose IV (1400-1390 BCE).

	New statue of Amenhotep III uncovered!
		Issue : 11-2010 The upper part of a granite double statue of king Amenhotep III (1410-1372 BC) was unearthed at Kom El-Hittan in the west bank of Luxor. Kom el-Hittan is the site of the temple of Amenhotep III, which was once the largest temple on Luxor’s west bank.

	Medinet Madi: The Past, the Present and the Future
		Issue : 11-2010 The SCA held a conference entitled ” Medinet Madi: The Past, the Present and the Future”. This conference focused on the project’s efforts at the site of Medinet Madi in the Fayoum Oasis.