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 ...

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 polytheism ...

As Egypt celebrates the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Ahram Online revisits rare photos of the Golden King collection from its first display at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir in the early ...

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 ...

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 ...