Our daily adventure around the world

🇪🇬 Egyptian archaeologists found a papyrus scroll containing texts from the ancient Book of the Dead. The 16-meter-long scroll, discovered at a site near Cairo last year, represents the first time a complete Egyptian papyrus has been found in a century, according to local government officials. After researchers analyzed the papyrus, they found it held texts from the Book of the Dead, an ancient Egyptian manuscript that provided instructions on how to conduct a funeral to ensure the dead person was prepared to navigate Duat (their version of the underworld).

🇵🇰 Every major city in Pakistan lost power for 12+ hours yesterday. The nationwide power cut, which began around 7:30am local time, is Pakistan’s second major outage in the past three months, on top of rolling blackouts the country’s ~220 million residents experience on an almost-daily basis. Local officials attributed yesterday’s outage to a voltage surge that resulted in a cascading series of failures across Pakistan’s national power grid, which multiple sources say is outdated and underfunded.

🇨🇳 The northernmost city in China saw its lowest temperature ever recorded. The city of Mohe, located near Russian Siberia, saw its temperature dip down to negative 63.4°F on Sunday, approximately 36°F below the average temps around this time of year. While that figure marks the lowest temperature recorded in China, it pales in comparison to the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth – a whopping negative 128.6°F at Vostok Station, Antarctica, in July 1983🤯.