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.

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.

as experts believe his father may have married his own sister, based on DNA from mummified bones. A somewhat sudden death could have left officials scrambling to get King Tut’s burial chamber in ...

as experts believe his father may have married his own sister, based on DNA from mummified bones. A somewhat sudden death could have left officials scrambling to get King Tut’s burial chamber in ...

Nefertiti married Akhenaten, Tutankhamun's father, but her tomb has yet to be discovered. King Tutankhamun ascended to 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 ...

But thanks to the discovery of the tomb, archaeologists learned that he had been expecting to be a father at one point. At the age of 12, King Tut married a woman named Ankhesenamun. She bore two ...