Was the throne held by a Queen before Tutankhamun was old enough to rule? If so, who was this Queen? Or even better, as this ...

Tutankhamun inherited a throne tainted by the shifts in religious and political practices implemented by his father, Akhenaten. His reign had been hallmarked by the move from the capital city of ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy ...

Tutankhamun was a previously unknown pharaoh whose name had been eradicated from historical records by one of his successors because of his association with the heretical pharaoh Akhenaten, who ...

His name became Tutankhamun, “living image of Amun,” and he wed a daughter of Akhenaten and Leer en español. Queen Nefertiti named Ankhesenamun (presumably his half sister).

Five Things You May Not Know About King Tutankhamun 100 Years After His Discovery From meteorites to erections, from curses to incest, the story of Tutankhamun has everything.

He believes the co-ruler renamed herself Smenkhkare and ruled as pharaoh between Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. Smenkhkare was a short-lived pharaoh whose identity and origins remain mysterious.

Tutankhamun became pharaoh after the death of his father Akhenaten. Some people liked how Akhenaten ruled but others didn't. He outlawed all of the gods except for one called Aten. The people were ...

In perhaps the most famous and enduring archaeological discovery in modern times, the unearthing of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, an otherwise obscure Egyptian pharaoh, in November 1922 captured ...

The tests pointed to Pharaoh Akhenaten, who tried to revolutionize ancient Egyptian religion to worship one god, as Tut's father. His mother was one of Akhenaten's sisters, it said.

Tutankhamun was erased from history because he was the son to the unpopular King Akhenaten, but once his tomb was discovered, his fame surpassed many of Egypt’s greatest rulers.