Zahi Hawass -- widely considered the world's most famous archaeologist -- attests that a precursor of the game we know today as football may have been invented in Ancient Egypt.
That may come as no surprise to anyone who is familiar with the Pharaohs' history of being first-movers. Practically everything in the modern world (brain surgery, beer, and idol worship amongst them) was invented by the Ancient Egyptians. And the beauty of it all is that there's evidence. The Pharaohs were kind enough to provide detailed references to their prowess on the walls of temples all over Egypt.
A bit strong perhaps, but an interesting read nonetheless.
And yet another stupid pun. . .Macquarie’s new digs in Egypt
A joint venture between Macquarie University and the Institute for Bioarchaeology (San Francisco), has seen Australia’s first permanent archaeological research facility established in Egypt.
The Facility for Archaeological Research at Helwan (FARAH) is being utilised by Macquarie Egyptologist Dr Christiana Köhler, to study artefacts and human remains from the tombs on site.
“This new research facility is a major improvement for the work process of myself and my team,” explains Köhler. “For the past seven years we have been working under the most basic of conditions, but now for the first time, thanks to the financial assistance of the Institute, we finally have a roof over our heads.”
From the EEF:
Several Canadian theses about ancient Nubia and Egypt are
available for dowloading [pick 'E-location' in the abstract]:
-- Rampersad, Sabrina Roma - The origin and relationships
of the Nubian A-group.
Abstract at: http://tinyurl.com/2b8bd
--Anderson, Wendy R. M. - The significance of Middle Nubian
C-group mortuary variability, ca. 2200 B.C. to ca. 1500 B.C.
Abstract at: http://tinyurl.com/24snk
-- Judd, Margaret Ann - Trauma and interpersonal violence in
ancient Nubia during the Kerma Period (ca. 2500-1500 BC)
Abstract: http://tinyurl.com/2dp32
-- Newman, Kimberly A. - Social archaeology, social relations
and archaeological materials: social power as depicted in the wall
art in the tombs of the Pharaoh's tomb-builders, Deir el-Medina,
Egypt, XVIII-XX dynasties
Abstract at: http://tinyurl.com/2v2qg
Digitized book: Francis Llewellyn Griffith, Stories of the High Priests
of Memphis. The Sethon of Herodotus and the Demotic Tales of
Khamuas. Atlas: Facsimiles of the Demotic Text of the Second Tale,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1900. 7 pls photographs, 7 pls. drawings
of the Demotic text.- pdf-file: 4.9 MB
URL: http://tinyurl.com/37wtm
Minerva Magazine of May/June 2004 has an online (brief)
book review of Emily Teeter & T.G. Wilfong, "Scarabs, Scaraboids,
Seals, and Seal Impressions from Medinet Habu".
http://www.minervamagazine.com/book_reviews/#2
Archaeology Magazine of May/June 2004 has a brief review
of the latest (16th) Amelia Peabody mystery, the Egyptological
fiction series by Elizabeth Peters:
http://www.archaeology.org/curiss/reviews/peters.html
Aegaeum 22, 2001, has an article online (PDF, 150 kB)
called "Minoan Deities in an Egyptian Medical Text", by Peter
W. Haider:
http://www.ulg.ac.be/archgrec/aegaeum22pdf.html
Note: The Griffith book referenced above is just part of a number of Egyptological and other Middle East archaeological works available at ETANA's digitized books and other links at the University of Chicago.