Archaeologists excavating an ancient necropolis near the Nile River have uncovered a 3,500-year-old burial site of a ...

British nationals boarded an RAF evacuation flight from Tel Aviv to Cyprus, one of the first since US attacks on Iran. Keir Starmer urged Brits in the region to contact the Foreign Office. Passengers ...

The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

A British-Egyptian archaeological mission from Cambridge University has discovered a gypsum head from a statue of King Akhenaten (around 1300 BC) during excavation work in Tel El-Amarna in Egypt ...

Aten. Aten or Aton is the name of an ancient Egyptian sun god often pictured as a solar disk emitting rays. Most often used for boys, this is an uncommon name choice in the UK that will help your ...

Aten, a manifestation of the sun, was represented as a single disk releasing rays of light that produce the entirety of the universe and god itself. Adherents believed that Aten remade the world every ...

Not long after Amenhotep III died, in 1353 B.C., masons entered his mortuary temple and methodically chiseled out every mention of Amun, the god said to have fathered the great pharaoh.

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old town that was possibly erected by King Tutankhamun's father -- and could reshape our understanding of Egyptian civilization.

Renowned for introducing monotheism, he worshipped the sun god Aten and founded the city of Akhetaten (modern-day Amarna). Tutankhamun (c. 1332–1323 BCE) ...

A recent study has revealed new secrets within the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, first discovered in 1922 in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and considered one of the greatest archaeological ...

As part of the religious reform initiated by his father Akhenaten, who promoted the worship of the sun god Aten, Tutankhamun and his officials would have had the opportunity to restore beliefs ...

Together, the pair led a religious revolution by abandoning polytheism and promoting worship of the sun god Aten. Nefertiti was often portrayed with her husband in elaborate attire, suggesting her ...