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.

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

King Tutankhamun, affectionately known as King Tut, remains one of the most captivating figures in ancient Egyptian history. Despite his short reign, his tomb's discovery in 1922 revealed a treasure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two of the missing pieces included gilded wooden statues of King Tutankhamun, with the most valued piece stolen being a limestone statue of Tut’s father, Akhenaten. The Egyptian Museum is currently ...