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' ...

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, 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 ...

*“Their family was the richest family,” said film director Dwayne Buckle about the focus of his documentary Great Mysteries of Akhenaten. “Judaism started with that family. Moses lived around that ...

Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine, which has puzzled experts for years. And he seemed to have a head ...

Al-Nabi Al-Mafqood (The Lost Prophet Akhenaten), by Sherif Shaaban, (Cairo: Al Rowaq Publishing), 2022. In his latest book, historian and Egyptologist Sherif Shaaban PhD tackled one of the most ...

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’s radical shift toward Aten worship, the founding of Amarna, and the later backlash against his rule are used to explain why his burial and body may have been targeted after death. His ...

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 ...