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 ...

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 ...

The youngest Pharaoh in Ancient Egyptian history who died at the age of just 18, King Tut is for many the most iconic name in ...

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.