The journey from Amarna to Berlin began in December 1912, when Borchardt and his team unearthed the bust of Nefertiti, wife of the monotheistic King Akhenaten, at the Amarna archaeological site ...

Tutankhamun #Nefertiti #Akhenaten Was the throne held by a Queen before Tutankhamun was old enough to rule? This question has intrigued Egyptologists and historians. The story begins in the 18th ...

Nefertiti, stepmother of boy king Tutankhamun, ruled Egypt from 1353BC to 1336BC with her husband, the pharaoh Akhenaten. He established his own religion, arousing the wrath of his people.

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt between 1379 and 1362 BC, built and lived in Tell el-Amarna in central Egypt for 15 years. The city was largely abandoned shortly after his death and the ascendance of ...

A team of Czech researchers discovered the skeletons of two women and a newborn buried more than 6,000 years ago in a flint mine in the Krumlov Forest, in southern Moravia in the Czech Republic. The ...

A 2.20 m deep cellar has been preserved, accessed by a double quarter-turn staircase composed of three flights of steps and two landings. On the first landing, a small smooth column drum was found ...