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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Animals and birds are shown frolicking beneath the rays of the rising sun in the decoration of the royal tomb. ... Akhenaten King of Egypt by Cyril Aldred (Thames and Hudson, 1988) ...

Nicknamed the Royal Cache, this tomb (known to experts as TT320 or DB320) originally housed the bodies of the high priest of Amun and his family, who lived around 960 B.C.

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 ...

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.

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

Around the year 1341 B.C., during Akhenaten’s reign, a royal child was born and named Tutankhaten “the living image of Aten.” ... Tut’s tomb contained 130 walking sticks, ...

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.

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 ...