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 ascending the throne, he turned away from traditional Egyptian ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an archaeological site named for a mound roughly in the shape of a horseshoe, or ...

A statue of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (also known as Amenhotep IV) at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. AFP via Getty Images Meanwhile, the central street was impressively sloped to ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago and included a temple dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II ...

Freud speculated that Moses was not a Jew but an Egyptian noble or priest, a follower of Akhenaten, who—after the decline of the Aten cult—transmitted the idea of monotheism to the Israelites.

While studying a Greek settlement from 332BC in northern Egypt, archaeologists made a stunning discovery — a hidden mud brick ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 'major' Egyptian town that was likely constructed by Akhenaten, father of the famous Tutankhamun. The settlement, founded as far back as the 18th Dynasty (c.

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Egyptian town dating back 3,400 years, likely established during the reign of Akhenaten, the father of Tutankhamun, and expanded centuries later by Ramses II.