Akhenaten, father of Tutankhamun and husband of Nefertiti, ruled Egypt between roughly 1353 and 1336 B.C. FAPAB Research Center Researchers have reconstructed the face of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh ...
One of the typical images of Atenist iconography involves Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten extending the ʿbȝ/sḫm/ḫrp/ḥw-ʿ scepter in the light of Aten, near offerings ...
Step into the world of Akhenaten—the strange, visionary pharaoh who shattered Egypt’s traditions. In Berlin’s halls, meet his lifelike bust, scarred by time, and the striking frescoes that reveal a ...
SO’OUD ATEN, Egypt — It’s a familiar story: The whim of a leader upends citizens’ lives and leads them into the wilderness. In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Akhenaten was no different. Determined that his ...
In addition to being an associate professor of history at Wittenberg University, Darlene Brooks Hedstrom is chief archaeologist of the Yale Monastic Archaeology project. Entering its fifth season, the ...
Three thousand four hundred years ago, a contentious ancient Egyptian king abandoned his name, his religion, and his capital in Thebes (modern Luxor). Archaeologists know what happened next: The ...
On tonight’s Mummies Unwrapped, Ramy Romany may just rewrite the ancient histories of both Christianity and Judaism. Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten may have been Moses, and the old testament biblical ...
Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Royal wife Nefertiti uprooted the lives of the ancient Egyptians by changing their polytheistic religion into a Monotheistic religion, worshipping only one God, The Aten.