This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sometimes the most powerful commentary on a king is made by those who are silent. One morning in Amarna, a village in ...
He elevates himself to the status of a living god and abandons the traditional religious capital at Thebes, building a great ceremonial city 180 miles to the north, at a place now called Amarna.
Though his father had angered devout subjects by declaring fidelity to the sun god Aten and relocating the center of worship from Thebes to Amarna, his son walked those changes back. This ...
This is documented in the Amarna letters discovered in Egypt. So we know that there were people taken to Egypt as slaves. There were also traders from the eastern Mediterranean who went to Egypt ...
Egypt did not have the technology to manufacture iron or plaster at that time. But in the Amarna letters written on clay tablets that was discovered along the Nile River there is an entry about an ...
The official cause of death was a "coronary artery anomaly." The GoFundMe page Amarna Plummer, the boy's aunt, created last year to raise money for the boy's parents is still collecting donations and ...