An archeological mission discovered the remnants of an ancient military town in the governorate of Ismailiya. The discovered military town dates back to the 26th Dynasty (664-625 BC). It was found in Tel Defna between Al-Manzala Lake and the Suez Canal.

During working in the project of developing the Egyptian Museum, a monument cache was discovered near the western door's stair in the western part of the Cairo Egyptian Museum. The cache is part of four other parts of a broken inscription that contain limestone hieroglyphic writing. It was divided into two parts with some hieroglyphic signs.

An Egyptian bust acquired by a Berlin museum over two decades ago may be a forgery. Scientists at the Technical University of Berlin had discovered the Hatshepsut stone was rich in the minerals magnesite and siderite. No other bust from the Nile region was made of such rock, suggesting that the 16.5-centimetre-high figure might be a modern fake