In an unusually quiet morning for Egypt-related news, the new capital is continuing to catch the attention — for better and for worse — of the global press. Reuters reports on how the government is ready to deploy bns to double the size of the new administrative capital as residents start to move in. The desert city to the east of Cairo is now home to 100k finished housing units, 1.2k families have moved in, and 48k employees head to work in the new city every day.

Also creating some buzz in the foreign press are reports of a discovery of an ancient burial site at Saqqara that dates 4k years back to the Second Dynasty. A team of Egyptian-Japanese researchers uncovered the tomb, which contained the remains of two individuals, statues of the pharaonic goddess Isis, jewelry, and pottery shards. (Newsweek | Independent)

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