In his ninth year of power, the "Heretic King" did the unthinkable: he erased 1,000 years of history with a single decree. By smashing the statues of the gods and declaring himself the only divine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bust of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt Nefertiti was an ancient Egyptian queen consort who was likely King Tut's stepmother and may have ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Of all the ancient Egyptians who wore kohl, Queen Nefertiti reigns supreme. But the elusive royal was far ...

Zahi Hawass says he will be ready to make the declaration this fall. Zahi Hawass, holding a photo of the bust of Nefertiti housed at the Neues Museum in Berlin, next to a unfinished bust of Nefertiti ...

*“Their family was the richest family,” said film director Dwayne Buckle about the focus of his documentary Great Mysteries of Akhenaten. “Judaism started with that family. Moses lived around that ...

An inscribed limestone block might have solved one of history's greatest mysteries — who fathered the boy pharaoh King Tut. "We can now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Zahi Hawass, ...