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• Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, have spotted an ancient form of ‘Tipp-Ex’ in a Book of the Dead vignette, where a white fluid was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer.
• An Egyptian-Chinese team working at Karnak has uncovered a 50-square metre (550-square-feet) sacred lake at the Montu Temple, together with three Late Period chapels dedicated to Osiris, and many blocks and fragments associated with the Divine Adoratrice.
• The Egyptian-German mission at Athribis has discovered a further 13,000 inscribed ostraca dating from the Graeco-Roman to Arabic Periods, bringing the total found to 43,000.
• Graffiti inscriptions in Tamil-Brahmi, Prakrit, and Sanskrit have been identified at tombs in the Valley of the Kings, left by visitors from India between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD.
Text: Sarah Griffiths / Image: © Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
