On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

For more than a century, Egyptologists have debated King Tut's cause of death. But a DNA analysis has brought them closer to understanding what killed the boy king.

Amenhotep III (a granite head from the temple complex is his best extant portrait) was succeeded by his son Akhenaten, who revolutionized Egypt's religion—temporarily. ALADIN ABDEL NABY ...

After Akhenaten’s death ... to have been finally put to rest is that Tut was killed by a blow to the head. A bone fragment detected in his skull during a 1968 X-ray was caused not by a blow ...

And the wooden sticks placed near Tutankhamun’s head may have played a role in ritually “awakening ... s reign were influenced by the policies of his predecessor, Akhenaten, who changed the state’s ...

After the death of his father Akhenaten—thought by many to be a ... However, the staffs at the head of Tutankhamen’s mummy—along with trays that are thought to have held libations to once ...

In Egyptian mythology, Osiris is awakened by staffs placed behind his head, suggesting that these ... the religious reform initiated by his father Akhenaten, who promoted the worship of the ...

He believes that the clay trays and four 3 foot-tall wooden staffs positioned about five feet away from the head of the ... when Tutankhamun's predecessor, Akhenaten came to power, he changed ...

A scientific discovery has pointed towards Tutankhamun’s possible cause of death, 100 years after his tomb's discovery.

The need to do so stems from the fact that Tutankhamun’s father Akhenaten had forsaken these ... four clay troughs that were found near the head of Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus.