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On Tutankhamun’s instructions Tiye and Akhenaten were removed from the Royal Tomb at Amarna, together with selected portable funerary equipment drawn from their original burials.
Under the caption "Akhenaten guards his tomb himself," social media users have pointed out the striking similarities in features between the tomb guardian and King Akhenaten. The fame of the ...
Akhenaten raised the Aten to the position of 'sole god', represented as a disk with rays of light terminating in hands which reach out to the royal family, sometimes offering the hieroglyphic sign ...
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of the first royal tomb in Egypt since Tutankhamun's burial was uncovered in 1922.
In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy ...
Archaeologists were delighted by the discovery of an intact pharaoh's mummy, but they couldn't help but wonder: Who were the other 12 mummies resting in the same tomb?
DNA analyses indicate that he was the son of Akhenaten, the previous king, and of Akhenaten’s sister, a royal concubine.
But Tutankhamun’s tomb also preserved a valuable insight into the royal family’s daily lives – with everything from tents to chariots, combs to cutlery and thrones to sceptres found among ...