The city was founded by Akhenaten, a king who, along with his wife Nefertiti and his son, Tutankhamun, has captured the modern imagination as much as any other figure from ancient Egypt.

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 ...

Culture Club/Getty Images Recently discovered by archaeologists, the “Lost Golden City” was abandoned by the heretic King Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti around 1336 B.C. for reasons that are ...

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 and organic material could be, saying only that he thinks the ...

Amenhotep III’s son Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten, made many changes to Egyptian politics and religion. Known as ...

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The pharaoh Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten, who assumed the throne about the time that Paramessu was born, shook the foundation of Egyptian society. With the revolutionary zeal of a Lenin ...

The bust of the Queen – who was married to the Pharaoh king Akhenaten – was found in 1912 by German excavator Ludwig Borchardt in an ancient workshop which was once part of a house and studio complex ...

Tutankhamun became pharaoh after the death of his father Akhenaten. Some people liked how Akhenaten ruled but others didn't. He outlawed all of the gods except for one called Aten. The people were ...

History beckons at Apollo Art Auctions, where centuries-old craftsmanship and culture will converge at the “Fine Ancient Art ...