In the early 20th century, King Tut's tomb sparked rumors of a potentially real and deadly curse, but one of the biggest mysteries stems from the identity of his missing pharoah father.

The king has been portrayed as a proto-Christian ... “Aten” in his name with the title of the god that his father had hated: Tutankhamun. He abandoned Amarna and returned to the old traditions.

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

FatherAkhenaten KV55The identity of King Tut’s father has long been a mystery. One candidate is the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten, who abandoned the gods of the state to worship a single deity.

Howard Carter, on his first peek into King Tut's tomb When I was about 12 years old, my father gave me a book he'd just finished called Gods, Graves, and Scholars. It retold the great stories of ...

But a few years after Akhenaten, King Tutankhamun's father, began his reign in the early 1350s BC, the city was abandoned and Egypt's capital was moved to the city of Amarna 250 miles away.

The discovery of wooden staffs and clay trays near the sarcophagus of King Tut might be the oldest known ... After the death of his father Akhenaten—thought by many to be a heretic because ...