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.

Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in the ...

In the fifth year of his reign, he changes his name to Akhenaten—"he who is beneficial to the Aten." He elevates himself to the status of a living god and abandons the traditional religious ...

Professor Joann Fletcher of the University of York told History Hit audiences that the Tutankhamun's ears are an "overlooked" ...

Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten five years into his reign to reflect his rejection of the main gods of the established pantheon and his promotion in their place of Aten, the god of ...

A deep dive into the theories that some of the Bible stories of Joseph & Moses might have originated from real life Egyptian historical figures.

They research team focused on a specific detail that had previously gone unnoticed: the perforated ears of the mask.

Nerfertiti, who was the principal wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten) and lived in the 14th century BC, is among the most iconic figures in the ancient civilisation's ruling dynasties.

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 ...

Egypt is calling for the Nefertiti bust's return from Germany to Egypt. The bust was removed by German archeologist Borchardt ...

The main story is the search for two artefacts which combined become an extraordinary weapon in the form a nuclear laser which turns rock into molten lava. There are various interests in the ...