Intrigue, whining, and negotiations—all these and more can be found in one of the greatest troves of ancient diplomatic ...

The theory connecting Moses to Pharaoh Akhenaten gained momentum once researchers examined the pharaoh’s radical shift toward a single, universal deity. Akhenaten attempted to dismantle Egypt’s ...

For seventeen years, Akhenaten dismantled Egypt's ancient gods and raised a new capital from nothing in the desert, then history tried to forget him entirely. This is the story of Amarna, the lost ...

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 ...

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 ...

The feminine features and elongated head of ancient Egypt’s King Akhenaten may be attributed to two genetic defects called aromatose excess syndrome and craniosynostosis, said Yale School of Medicine ...