For the first time, explorers enter the deep, damaged tomb of the heretic pharaoh with only torchlight. Inside, they find ...

After the death of King Tut, a power-hungry vizier married the royal princess—but his reign was cut short by a military ...

For more than four decades Barry Kemp lectured and taught at Cambridge University. But for almost all that time his mind, and preferably his body too, were elsewhere. Cambridge is a well-watered place ...

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' ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine, ...

Queen Tiye of Egypt is regarded as the figure who paved the way for the world's major religions and was venerated as a ...

Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead. So concludes a Yale University ...

The disappearance of Kiya and the parentage of Tutankhamun are among some of the mysteries surrounding the end of Egypt's Amarna Period. French archaeologist, Dr Marc Gabolde, offers his new theories.

Akhenaten, a pharaoh from Egypt?s 18th Dynasty, has breasts, hips and buttocks as large and round as a woman?s and a belly as prominent as that of a pregnant woman. Researchers marvel at the feminine ...