Certain mysteries from the ancient world are still largely unexplained today and continue to puzzle scientists and researchers.

A remarkable thing about ancient Egyptian art and society as a whole was its stability. For 2,000 years, from 3000 to 1000 BC, relatively little changed, including their art. Akhenaten was the one ...

one-time queen of Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled in the 14th century B.C.E. But what began as a profound ...

Nefertiti was an ancient Egyptian queen consort ... and images of Akhenaten and Nefertiti were destroyed. Sculptures of Nefertiti have been found intentionally smashed to pieces or with their ...

A statue of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (also known as Amenhotep IV) at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. AFP via Getty Images Meanwhile, the central street was impressively sloped to ...

Archaeologists have known that a "mystery female pharaoh" ruled ancient ... that several sculptures of anonymous royal heads, which were previously thought to depict Akhenaten or Nefertiti ...

Polytheistic ancient Egyptians each favored one god or another. Nefertiti followed Aten, the sun god. In either the fifth or ninth year of his reign, Amenhotep III changed his name to Akhenaten ...

No named sculpture of Smenkhkare is known, so it is impossible to compare the skull with representations of him and Akhenaten ... the lack of any controls in ancient populations.

Supported by By Franz Lidz A century ago, archaeologists excavated a 3,300-year-old Egyptian palace in Amarna, which was fleetingly the capital of Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaten.