After four seasons of intensive work, that began in 2005, the full geophysical map of the site, on which hundreds of chambers and dozens of buildings were visible, was ready. The methods of building periphery walls, that were 420 by 450 m and built during the XXVI (664-525b.c.) and XXX (380-343b.c.) Dynasties, was recreated. An unknown city gate and temple were also discovered.

New statistical functions have been added to the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA).

The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections (JAEI) is an online scholarly publication integrating Egyptian archaeology with Mediterranean, Near Eastern and African studies – providing a new venue for this growing field of interdisciplinary and inter-area research. The journal is guided by an Executive Editorial Board composed of distinguished scholars from around the world and by Editorial Liaisons who are experts in the cultures of ancient Egypt’s neighbors or aspects of their interaction with Egypt.

A Spanish team conducting excavations in the Upper Egyptian city of Beni Sweif has stumbled upon antiquities that date back to the first intermediate Period (2190-2061 BC). This was in Ehansia, where the mission of Madrid's National Archeological Museum is working. The Supreme Council of antiquities said that the team was digging inside a temple of Herishef, when it came across a plate on which the different names of King Ramses II (1304-1237 BC) were engraved.

The Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton’s voluptuous body shape and elongated head and neck, recorded in ancient depictions of the male ruler, have long perplexed historians. Irwin Braverman, a professor of dermatology and an expert on visual diagnosis at the Yale University School of Medicine, is offering a theory on the characteristics, which are not found in representations of other pharaohs: Akhenaton may have suffered from two genetic disorders that affect body shape.

The remains of the mummy were discovered in a pyramid found in Saqqara last year. Ancient robbers had stolen most of the valuables from inside the sarcophagus, leaving behind the body parts, some pottery and gold that was used to cover fingers of royal pharaohs, the council said in a faxed statement. Even though the archaeologists didn’t find the name of the queen in hieroglyphics, there is evidence to suggest that the mummy was the mother of the Sixth Dynasty ruler King Teti, Hawass said in the statement.

An Egyptian-French archaeological team headed by French archaeologist George Castel uncovered the remains of an ancient city dating back to the Middle Kingdom (1665-2061 BC) in Ain Sokhna about 120 km north of Cairo, announced Culture Minister Farouk Hosni. The discovery includes nine storage areas and three narrow alleyways enclosed within a 600 square meter rectangular building with a single room.

A wanted Lebanese antiquities dealer has been arrested in Bulgaria over accusations he stole ancient Egyptian artefacts and slipped them out of the country in recent years, Egypt's Culture Ministry said on Thursday. Ali Abu Taam, arrested on Wednesday with help from Interpol, was accused of helping a convicted antiquities thief smuggle 280 artefacts out of Egypt by mislabelling them as glass bottles or hiding them in boxes of toys and electronics marked as exports.

Egypt has formally asked Sweden for the return of 212 artifacts taken out of the country by a Swedish collector in mid 1920s, Egypt's chief archaeologist said Monday. The artifacts, Hawass said, were taken "in an illegal manner" by Otto Smith, a collector who was digging in Egypt at locations such as Saqqara and Luxor in mid 1920s, when there was a huge appetite for Egyptian artifacts in the West.

Recent discoveries at Tell Al-Farkha include numerous statuettes and amulets carved of hippopotamus tusk, and several dozen golden plate fragments came to light, the latter arduously reconstructed into figurines of exceptional beauty. The mission uncovered an extensive settlement and they were thrilled to find, in a large pottery vessel, the above objects "which have no counterparts in finds from the other sites with early Egyptian architecture and art". They have been dated to the time of Dynasty "O" and the beginning of the First Dynasty (c. 3100 to 3000 BC).