Join best-selling author Rick Riordan for a discussion of "The Red Pyramid" and Egyptian mythology, as well as a book-signing, at Barnes & Noble La Cantera, 15900 La Cantera Parkway, at 2 p.m. May 15.

Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses provide the names of the 19 regions on Comet 67P — a scientist with the mission talks about how they were chosen.

Hatshepsut was probably the daughter of the great Egyptian King Thutmoses I, who ruled the kingdom from around 1528 to 1510 B.C. at the beginning of the 18th dynasty in the New Kingdom era.