Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities Gets New Secretary General

After the blindingly quick on-again, off-again nomination of Abdel-Fattah El-Banna (who isn't an archaeologist), Mohamed Abdel Fattah, former head of the SCA's antiquities sector, has officially replaced the famous Zahi Hawass. Three different accounts - each contains a bit of information the others do not - are from The New York Times, Biblical Archaeology Review, and Bikya Masr.