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Egyptophile Kate Phizackerley, runs the Egyptopaedia portal and has set up a collaborative database to catalogue the looting, site by site, and draw up a list of the damaged and missing objects. The aim is to discourage the selling of stolen artifacts.

Very kindly, the chair of the ICOM Disaster Relief Task Force, Thomas Schuler, also emailed me to say, “thank you very much for your very helpful blog and database!”  It was a lot of work – and continues to be – and it is pleasing that it has been of value to such an important effort.

• “It’s starting to take on the hallmarks of a TV drama like ‘Bones’ or ‘CSI.’ Just who were the two mummies?” Kate Phizackerley, who runs “Egyptological Looting Database 2011,” asked in her blog.
• “We all feared they could be Yuya and Thuya, but the pictures proved they weren’t,” Phizackerley said.
• “They might never have been in display,” Phizackerley said

The same article has also appeared on MSNBC and in Swedish on Sydsvanskan:

”Det här börjar likna ett tv-drama som ”Bones” eller ”CSI”. Exakt vilka var de här två mumierna?” skrev Kate Phizackerley, grundare till magasinet Egyptological Online, i förra veckan.

The article was publised on my News from the Valley of the Kings blog

Abstract
The paper Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun’s Family
by Hawass al. (Journal of American Medicine, 2010 – JAMA. 2010;303(7):638-647), states that the mummy in KV55 is “probably” Akhenaten – hereafter “the JAMA paper”. The media has accepted the attribution as affirmed fact, although the attribution has attracted considerable comment and debate with a number of writers questioning the forensic data. I believe, however, that the correct focus of dissent to the attribution should be the STR analysis which shows that the KV55 mummy is highly unlikely to be Akhenaten and that an alternative family tree is a better fit to the genetic findings of the Hawass study.

Phizackerley, Kate “Outsourcing Exit Strategy – Planning Ahead For the Full Contract Life Cycle.” Outsourcing Exit Strategy – Planning Ahead For the Full Contract Life Cycle EzineArticles.com.

In the article I look at the importance of considering how to avoid lock-in with outsourcing contracts.  This is a sample paragraph:

That is the key question which any organisation outsourcing a service needs to consider before signing a contract. If the answer is “only with great difficulty” then your supplier is holding a hand of aces whenever you need to negotiate a new contract or a revision in contractual terms. If you lack the resources or knowledge to take the contract back in house, and no other supplier has them “off the shelf”, then there is substantial lock-in. If a supplier knows that moving the contract away from them would cost you £2m, they can easily afford to inflate their charges to you by £1m knowing that you have little alternative but to pay.

(A reminder as well that my business blog is now Kate Phizackerley on Business.)