On February 28, 2006 a special exhibition entitled “American Contributions to Egyptian Archaeology” was inaugurated at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by American Ambassador Francis J. Ricciordone, Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Gerry D. Scott, III, Director of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), and Dr. Wafaa El Saddik, Director of the Egyptian Museum. The exhibition, organized and curated by Dr. Scott in collaboration with the curatorial staff of the Egyptian Museum and several American colleagues, brings together over 50 important objects of ancient Egyptian art from the Egyptian Museum that were excavated by American archaeologists from 1900 to the present. The exhibition runs through April and includes the most recent discovery of a life-size statue of Queen Tiye made by the Johns Hopkins University expedition, led by Dr. Betsy M. Bryan, in January. The discovery was made during work sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and supported with grant funds provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). A didactic panel, also included in the exhibition, discussed and illustrated the latest tomb found in the legendary Valley of the Kings (KV 63), discovered by Doctor Otto Schadden and a team affiliated with the University of Memphis.