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• Deliberately deformed sheep horns have been found in a burial at Hierakonpolis: the mutilation may have been to prevent the animals from injuring each other and their human handlers.
• New research from Johns Hopkins University in the USA suggests that Egypt was not the birthplace of the written alphabet as once believed. Symbols carved on finger-length clay cylinders found in a tomb in Syria have been carbon-dated to c.2400 BC, pre-dating the Egyptian script by about 500 years.
• Emergency repair work has been carried out on the walls in the Tomb of Mereruka at Saqqara after a visitor scrawled lines over some of the scenes.
• The Grand Egyptian Museum has opened to the public, but with access limited to only 12 galleries; the Tutankhamun and solar boat galleries remain closed until the official opening.
• A stray dog at Giza became a social media sensation when it was filmed by a paraglider, barking at birds at the top of the Pyramid of Khafra. The animal was later seen safely back on the ground.
Text: Sarah Griffiths / All images: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, unless otherwise stated
