This article is from Ancient Egypt issue 147
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• Twelve 5-metre-high subterranean cisterns, part of an extensive Ptolemaic water supply system, have been excavated at Darazya (ancient Derhis).
• TT39, the Tomb of Puyemra (Second Priest of Amun in the reign of Thutmose III), has been reopened to the public following decades of restoration work by the Mexican Archaeological Mission.
• The DNA of the ‘Black Death’ plague bacterium Yersinia pestis has been discovered in a 3,300-year-old mummy in the Museo Egizio, Turin – the oldest confirmed case outside Eurasia.
• French Egyptologist Jean-Marcel Humbert has donated his large private collection of Egyptomania artefacts to the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. The objects will form part of a major exhibition in 2026.
Text: Sarah Griffiths
