A limestone stela at the Neues Museum features Akhenaten and Nefertiti with three of their daughters beneath the sun god Aten. In Amarna stelae like this were erected as shrines in elite residences.

Akhenaten was an Egyptian Pharaoh back in the 1300s BCE who upended the religious landscape of ancient Egypt. Within years of ascending the throne, he turned away from traditional Egyptian ...

Lady K'atun-Ajaw wears the same outfit in her portrait on Stela 1, another carved stone slab erected at Piedras Negras five years earlier than Stela 3. Though she is standing in Stela 1 rather ...