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

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a 3,400-year-old "lost golden city" in Luxor over the last seven months.; In 1935, a French excavation team searched for the city — which may be the ...

Aten, for example, is a long, slim region on the body of the comet named after an Egyptian god of the sun. The Aten region contains a long depression with sharply sloping sides, bordered by the ...

Akhenaten raised the Aten to the position of 'sole god', ... The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt by I Shaw (ed) (Oxford, 2000) Places to visit. The British Museum. Great Russell Street, London.

KS2 History: Ancient Egypt. Gods and goddesses. A video exploring some of the many gods and goddesses of Ancient Egyptian civilisation and the various purposes within society. BBC Teach.

Egyptian culture attached a great deal of importance to burial rituals. ... Pharaoh Amenhotep III switched attention to the minor sun god, Aten. After his death, his son ...

Akhenaten disrupted traditional artistic style when he replaced Amun, the principal god of Egypt, with the solar deity Aten during his reign between 1353 and 1336 B.C. Unusual for an Egyptian god ...

From mid-November onwards, the Hong Kong Palace Museum will host the ‘Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums ...

A mysterious burial from ancient Egypt contains gold jewelry, including three rings — one featuring the Bes, the god of fun — and a necklace.

He also moved the Egyptian capital to a new city he built named Akhetaten, meaning “horizon of the god Aten.” Akhenaten’s revolution was short-lived: Egypt would return to its old faith ...