KV55 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings that contained a cache of material and bodies brought from Amarna after Akhenaten’s reign. It lies only about 120 ft (36 m) across the valley floor from ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

Under the caption "Akhenaten guards his tomb himself ... momentum after engineer and Egyptian heritage enthusiast Karim Badr shared photographs he had taken while exploring the royal tombs. ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of the first royal tomb in Egypt since Tutankhamun's burial was uncovered more than 100 years ago. The resting place of King Thutmose II, who ruled ...

CAIRO — Former UA scholar Nicholas Reeves believes the tomb of King Tutankhamun may not have revealed all its secrets. And the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities agrees with him. In a news ...

Great royal wife to Pharaoh Akhenaten, Nefertiti has long been celebrated for her beauty, but today's Egyptologists are exploring another dimension of her life: her role as powerbroker.

By November 4, 1922, Carter and his team had spent five futile years searching for an undiscovered royal tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. The prevailing wisdom said that everything the ...

DNA analyses indicate that he was the son of Akhenaten, the previous king, and of Akhenaten’s sister, a royal concubine. He died with no heirs, which allowed two army generals to access the ...

His father, Akhenaten, had died. ... But there are also suggestions his successor, Pharaoh Aye, may have appropriated a royal tomb intended for the boy-king for himself. 4.