Among the oldest and most effective weapons of antiquity were simple and composite bows.Widely used during the Bronze Age, these weapons evolved over time, with significant advancements in their ...
French Egyptologist Alain Zivie points to Pharaoh Amenhotep III’s vizier ‘Abdiel whose Semitic name means ‘a servant of [the god] El’. ‘Abdiel’s name is unusual. In Egyptian ...
Remains of an ancient temple of Aten in Amarna , Egypt. Credit: wikimedia commons / Markh CC BY-SA 3.0 Pharaoh Akhenaten, originally named Amenhotep IV (or Amenophis IV in Greek), changed his name to ...
They may have had pierced ears, they may have been a woman, it may well have been Nefertiti." Nerfertiti, who was the principal wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten) and lived in the 14th ...
The ear piercings caught her attention immediately as she is an Egyptologist who has been studying the ancient civilization for decades. Famed pharaohs like King Tut's great-grandfather, Amenhotep III ...
An overlooked feature on King Tutankhamun's death mask has revealed how the young ruler was buried. King Tut ruled during Egypt's 18th Dynasty, from 1332 BC to 1323 BC before he died at 19.