Akhenaten was an Egyptian Pharaoh back in the 1300s BCE who upended the religious landscape of ancient Egypt. Within years of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient pharaoh Akhenaten was almost lost to history. Canadian archaeologist Donald Redford, who uncovered the foundation of one of the pharaoh’s many temples, attempts to finally piece together ...

(Akhenaten was the "rebel" pharaoh who established the world's first monotheistic religion, based on a belief in the Aten, or sun disk.) Notice the meticulous carving of hair in this detail from ...

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 ...

Join us for a talk that reviews the history of the Amarna Period and the lives of King Akhenaten and his Queen Nefertiti. It will review the evidence from the site called ‘Kom el-Nana’ at Tell ...

As Pharaoh, you will lead a people from the humble banks of the Nile River to the sprawling and wondrous world of Ancient Egypt. Advertisement As Pharaoh, you will lead a people from the humble ...