“He wanted to go to a place to worship Aten,” Hawass said, adding that he chose a site known today as Tell-el Amarna, around 200 miles south of Egypt’s capital, ...

In Luxor, Egypt, a ‘lost city of gold’ is gradually revealing the story of its construction and sudden abandonment more than 3,000 years ago. Its remains could reveal more about the troubled years of ...

Worship of Aten ceased, and polytheism was restored, as taxation returned to uphold the ancient (and previously lucrative) traditions. Perhaps above all, the Egyptian capital returned to Thebes.

Akhenaten decided that the worship of the Aten required a location uncontaminated by the cults of traditional gods and to this end chose a site in Middle Egypt for a new capital city which he ...

Egyptian archaeologists have revealed what may be the greatest find of the 21st century. A radar scan has shown two hidden chambers in the tomb of Egyptian ...