New research says that a rare solar eclipse in 2471 B.C. may have sparked ancient Egypt's surprising shift away from sun ...

Four trays and four staff found in Tutankhamun's burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings may have been used in an ancient ...

The tomb of Akhenaten, for instance, the heretic pharaoh (and father of Tut) who instigated radical changes in Egyptian religion and society, remains a mystery. Some feel the tomb known as KV 55 ...

One candidate is the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten, who abandoned the gods of the state to worship a single deity. In 1907 a badly decayed mummy was discovered in KV55, a small tomb in the Valley of ...

Akhenaten’s successors were mostly scathing about his reign. Even Tutankhamun—whose brief reign has been a subject of fascination since his tomb was discovered in 1922—issued a decree ...

Researchers believed this theory, as historical records confirm that Ankhesenamun was the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. In 1907, years before King Tut’s tomb was found, archaeologist ...

The youngest Pharaoh in Ancient Egyptian history who died at the age of just 18, King Tut is for many the most iconic name in ...

Despite the many months, if not years, workers took to carve Ramose's tomb out of solid rock and ... Thebes and moved north to Tel el-Amarna, Akhenaten's new capital. This likeness of the "rebel ...