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 ...

Which became quite a thing for the Ancient Egyptians ... Nefertiti was the wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, and had six daughters by him. She was renowned for her beauty and made famous ...

The end of Akhenaten's reign is cloaked in confusion ... or tokens of purity to accompany him into the afterlife? Icon of ancient Egypt, the teenage pharaoh’s funerary mask immortalizes ...

Yet a few have never been located, including those of some of the most famed figures from ancient Egyptian history. The tomb of Akhenaten, for instance, the heretic pharaoh (and father of Tut ...

An ancient capital ... DeAgostini/Getty Images Once Egypt's largest city, it dates back to King Akhenaten’s father, Amenhotep III, who ruled during a golden age of the empire.

The discoveries, experts said, provide clues to ancient Egyptian ... He was the son of Akhenaten and took to the throne at the age of nine or ten. When Tut became king, he married his half-sister ...

As Pharaoh, you will lead a people from the humble banks of the Nile River to the sprawling and wondrous world of Ancient Egypt. Advertisement As Pharaoh, you will lead a people from the humble ...

Alastair Sooke picks treasures from Ancient Egyptian art's most opulent and ... Egypt's history where a new sinuous style was born under King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti. Along the way ...

Ancient Egypt ... the Valley of the Kings and Karnak Temple are some of Egypt's most famous archaeological sites. Its history includes a variety of famous pharaohs, such as Akhenaten, Tutankhamun ...