For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being challenged.

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 ...

but when his tomb was discovered in 1922 it ignited mysteries that still prevail to this day. Born around 1341 BC, Tutankhamun, as we know him today, was originally called Tutankhaten. This was in ...

Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the entire world was eagerly anticipating—the opening of King Tut's burial chamber.

New archaeological findings challenge the long-standing theory of a plague causing the abandonment of Akhetaten, Egypt's ...

The plague of Akhetaten has long been cited as a possible explanation for the mysterious abandonment of ancient Egypt's short-lived capital city. However, a comprehensive new archaeological analysis ...

Archaeologists have identified the first known bone whistle from ancient Egypt, a 3,300-year-old artifact crafted from a cow's toe bone that likely served as a signaling device for police guarding ...

Among the most important items that made it into the crypts of both kings and commoners alike were shabti figurines that served to ensure that the Afterlife was one long holiday for their masters. The ...

A recent study by Michelle Langley, Anna Stevens, and Christopher Stimpson, which was conducted as part of the Amarna Project through the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of ...

Phalanx of a juvenile Bos with a single perforation through its length. Red arrows indicate striations from drilling. Blue arrow indicates area of termite damage. Ancient Egyptian royal cemetery ...

A 3,300-year-old Egyptian whistle, carved from the toe bone of a cow, was unearthed in the ruins of Amarna, the former capital of ancient Egypt established by Pharaoh Akhenaten around 1347 B.C.

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