• A German-Egyptian ScanPyramids team has discovered two previously unknown air-filled cavities in the Pyramid of Menkaura at Giza, which might suggest the presence of a second entrance on the eastern side of the monument.
• Research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science suggests that recovering gold from riverbeds and desert streams was a lucrative part of ancient Egypt’s gold-mining industry.
• A new radiocarbon study of a group of ancient Egyptian objects suggests that the Minoan eruption of Thera occurred during the Second Intermediate Period, before the reign of Ahmose I, and so is not the storm mentioned in the king’s ‘Tempest Stela’.
• The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the disappearance of a limestone painting from the Sixth Dynasty tomb of Khentika at Saqqara, which was found to be missing in May this year; the tomb was not open to the public and had been used as a storeroom until 2019.
• Egypt’s former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Khaled El-Enany, has been named Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the first Egyptian and Arab to be elected to the organisation’s top post.
