No images of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, or Aten have been found in ... The king’s son took the throne as Amenhotep IV, but during the fifth year of his reign he made two momentous decisions.

Egypt is home to one of the most ancient civilizations on Earth. Occupied continuously since the 4th millennium BCE, cities ...

Paramessu grew up in one of the most unusual periods in Egyptian history. The pharaoh Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten, who assumed the throne about the time that Paramessu was born ...

Nefertiti and Tutankhamun were converted to belief in the god Amun after the death of Akhenaten,” Hawass said. He said that during recent excavations near the tombs of both Kings Amenhotep III ...

Graphics experts have brought the ancient past to life by recreating the face of Amenhotep I, the pharaoh who founded the Valley of the Kings and reshaped Egyptian history. Amenhotep I ...

The mummy of Amenhotep I, who ruled from 1525 to 1504 BC, was found at a site in Deir el-Bahari 140 years ago. But archaeologists have refrained from opening it in order to preserve the exquisite ...

In Philip Glass’s 1984 opera the Pharaoh Akhnaten (Amenhotep IV) breaks with tradition by ... but with his wife Nefertiti – known historically to be a woman of outstanding beauty – he ...

Archeologists and graphics experts have recreated the facial features of one of Egypt’s most significant pharaohs, Amenhotep I, who ruled during the 18th Dynasty around 1,500 BCE, or 3,500 years ...

Before the Old Kingdom, in the fourth year of the reign of King Amenhotep IV, Queen Nefertiti enjoyed unprecedented power, equal only to the Pharaoh himself. However, in the fourteenth year of the ...

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Hospitals are urging the White House to help shore up supplies of IV bags after a North Carolina factory closed because of flood damage wrought by Hurricane Helene. Several hospitals have ...