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.

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

Since the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt over 100 years ago, the contents have been ...

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 ...

Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. Braverman, Irvin M., Donald B. Redford, and Philip A. Mackowiak. 2009. "Akhenaten and the Strange Physiques of Egypt's 18th Dynasty." Annals of Internal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...