The mystery of what killed King Tutankhamun may finally be solved — after scientists unearthed groundbreaking DNA evidence.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Akhenaten ruled c. 1353-1336 BC alongside ... archaeologists also unearthed temple blocks - dedicated by Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, who ruled between 1279-1213 BC. Another find includes ...

Negotiations for the exhibition dragged on for three years while the Egyptian ... After Akhenaten’s death, a scramble for the throne ensued. A mysterious pharaoh named Smenkhkare may have ...

Under Akhenaten, the solar deity Aten was ... as both renewed in death through Osiris, and the king who restored order to Egypt. More information: Nicholas Brown, These Thy Libations, Osiris!

Archaeologists also found temple blocks dedicated by Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II ... Meritaten, the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti and possibly the sister or half-sister of Tutankhamun ...

Merytaton was the daughter of the pharaoh Akhenaten (reign 1349 to 1336 B.C.) and his wife Nefertiti. Akhenaten unleashed a religious revolution that tried to focus Egypt's religion around the ...