Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Noon on a broad and barren plain; a single pillar stands erect. An arm-span away the broken base of a companion ...

A Belgium archaeological mission working at Tel Al-Amarna area in Al-Minya governorate, 300 km south of Cairo, revealed through satellite imagery how the ancient Egyptians built such a historically ...

If you thought King Tut was a colorful character, you should meet his dad. The man believed to be the father of Tutankamun, the famous boy pharaoh, created a city called Amarna and introduced the ...

While an Egyptian pharaoh built majestic temples filled with sparkling treasures, the lower classes performed backbreaking work on meager diets, new evidence suggests. An analysis of more than 150 ...

Amid the convulsions in the years following the Arab Spring, Peter Hessler went to the ancient city of Amarna, site of another short-lived attempt to remake a nation They say there is something ...

Evidence of the brutal lives endured by some ancient Egyptians to build the monuments of the Pharaohs has been uncovered by archaeologists. Skeletal remains from a lost city in the middle of Egypt ...

A Belgium archaeological mission reveals the layout of the ancient Egyptian city of Al-Amarna, the capital of the monotheistic king Akhenaten A Belgium archaeological mission working at Tel Al-Amarna ...