KV55 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings that contained a cache of material and bodies brought from Amarna after Akhenaten’s reign. It lies only about 120 ft (36 m) across the valley floor from ...

Pharaoh Akhenaten has been brought to life in what is the most accurate reconstruction to date - and the digital picture bears a striking resemblance to King Tut. Pharaoh Akhenaten is believed to be ...

The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten's mummy. The ...

CAIRO - The DNA tests that revealed how the boy-king Tutankhamun probably died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring mysteries - the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten's mummy. The discovery ...

ALL names were erased and the death mask was defaced. Now a forgotten box may help reveal who was buried in the Valley of the Kings’ most mysterious tomb. The tomb has no name. Just a number. The ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family In ...

Tourists view the colossus of Pharaoh Akhenaten on Thursday in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, showing his elongated head and feminine hips that long confounded Egyptologists. The identification of ...

This week, the Ministry of Antiquities will start the second phase of a study aimed at uncovering the mystery behind an unidentified sarcophagus found in 1906 inside tomb KV55 at the Valley of the ...

Akhenaten is a source of endless fascination and speculation - this often masks the fact that we actually know very little about him. Dr Kate Spence explores the enigmatic story of Egypt's 'heretic' ...

Excerpted with permission from Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty by Guy de la Bédoyère, published by Pegasus Books. In the murky drama of Akhenaten’s aftermath and the ...