With the death of young Princess Setepenra, a royal line flickered out. Born to Akhenaten and Nefertiti as their revolution ...

On Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, by Eric H. Cline.

An image of wall paintings in the Green Room just after excavation. What is shown here inspired a facsimile (below) but no longer survives in its original form. It’s easy to envision why the princess ...

Archaeologists working near Luxor have identified the remains of a large royal city dating back around 3,400 years, offering ...

A newly discovered body of an ancient Egypitan woman reveals that the Amarna people used hair extensions in their coiffures During recent excavation work at Tel Al-Amarna city – the ancient Egyptian ...

A bust of Queen Nefertiti ca. 1350 B.C. In the 1880s, residents living near the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna discovered a large multichambered rock-cut tomb. It was one of many such tombs at Amarna ...

Archaeologists near Luxor have uncovered a vast 3,400-year-old royal city, revealing new details about daily life during one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful eras.

Egypt is repositioning its wealth of antiquities as a major contribution to its global soft power and economic development, writes Nevine El-Aref ...

The Amarna period, roughly 1353-1336 BCE, introduced a new form of art that completely contradicted what was known and revered in the Egyptian culture. The pharaoh Amenhotep IV not only changed his ...

Benjamin de Almeida Newton is a Ph.D student in the department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

An Egyptian-English mission excavating a necropolis at Tel el-Amarna in Egypt has uncovered the burial of a young woman wrapped in textile and plant fiber matting. She carried a full complement of ...