But a newly studied relief from a monument at Karnak dating to around 1350 B.C.—just before Akhenaten turned the Egyptian world upside down—provides fascinating insight into the mind of the ...
Any understanding of King Tut’s story has to begin with his predecessor — the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten. Akhenaten was a radical religious zealot who revolted against the Egyptian orthodoxy. He ...
Around 1353 BC the Pharaoh Akhenaten tried to change the way gods were worshipped in Egypt. Instead of having multiple gods and goddesses, each with different roles, he placed one god, the god ...
AP The Egyptologist led a team in 2003 to identify a badly damaged mummy as likely belonging to Queen Nefertiti – co-ruler of Egypt under the reign of the monotheistic heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten.
A team of Egyptian archaeologists discover a 3400-year-old lost city buried under the sands, near the Valley of the Kings. It is the largest ancient city ever unearthed and one of the greatest ...