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People have traveled to Egypt for centuries in search of the tomb of Queen Nefertiti — and world-famous Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass says they have narrowed down where she could be. In a TODAY ...
While studying a Greek settlement from 332BC in northern Egypt, archaeologists made a stunning discovery — a hidden mud brick ...
This is the face of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, stunningly reconstructed by modern science from a badly-damaged mummy. It answers one of the most beguiling mysteries of the ages - were her looks ...
Initially thought to be uninhabited until occupation by the Greeks in 332 BC, a surprise discovery of mud brick was dated back to the New Kingdom dynasty (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.), making this the ...
It likely originated during the powerful 18th Dynasty of Egypt ... 1353-1336 BC alongside his influential queen, Nefertiti, who may have even ruled as pharaoh in her own right after her ...
Merytaton was the daughter of the pharaoh Akhenaten (reign 1349 to 1336 B.C.) and his wife Nefertiti. Akhenaten unleashed a religious revolution that tried to focus Egypt's religion around the ...
His father Akhenaten upended traditional religion and his mother Nefertiti became a symbol of royal power. Seti II, mentioned in the recovered fragments, ruled during the 19th Dynasty (c.