The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

Objects found in the tomb of Tutankhamun indicate that the Boy King was the first pharaoh ever to undergo a funerary rite ...

The city was founded by Akhenaten, a king who, along with his wife ... in his name with the title of the god that his father had hated: Tutankhamun. He abandoned Amarna and returned to the old ...

FatherAkhenaten KV55The identity of King Tut’s father has long been a mystery. One candidate is the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten, who abandoned the gods of the state to worship a single deity.

Ancient Egypt, one of the world’s oldest civilizations, is full of mysteries. From eerie Egyptian curses that make even the biggest skeptics feel uneasy to a bust that may or may not depict the ...

In 1922, the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, marked one of the most significant finds of ...

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 ...

Scans of King Tut's burial chamber have revealed two ... Nefertiti was one of the wives of Tutankhamun's father, the Pharaoh Akhenaten. El-Damaty said it was too early to tell what the metal ...

Could another crypt as rich as King Tut's still lie buried in ... The tomb of Akhenaten, for instance, the heretic pharaoh (and father of Tut) who instigated radical changes in Egyptian religion ...

Tutankhamun, or King Tut as he is also known ... Tutankhamun became pharaoh after the death of his father Akhenaten. Some people liked how Akhenaten ruled but others didn't.

But a few years after Akhenaten, King Tutankhamun's father, began his reign in the early 1350s BC, the city was abandoned and Egypt's capital was moved to the city of Amarna 250 miles away.