A study reveals that the Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis, Greece, built by Alexander for Hephaestion, was solar-aligned with the ...

Egypt’s 18th dynasty rose to the start of the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1077 BCE) and was the zenith of Egyptian international ...

The largest and most lavish tomb ever built in ancient Macedonia may have been designed to fill with sunlight on the winter ...

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.

Tucked away in vintage coin collections and now resurfacing online for up to USD 40 (EGP 1,990), Egypt’s five piastres coin ...

Nefertiti and Pharoah Nana Akenten s Ancient Egypt This famous black woman whose statue is often seen circulating the world ...

Their legacy would stay buried for millennia. Sun cityDedicated to the solar god Aten, the ruins of Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s capital city, known today as Amarna, sit on the eastern bank of the ...

First, he decided that the sun was the source ... The main idea that Akhenaten called on his followers to believe in was that there was only one true God and the rest were not real.

After Akhenaten’s death ... Ra-Horakhty is one of the many forms of the sun god Ra. In this iteration, he has the falcon head of Horus, another god of the sun who crossed the vast expanse ...

Interestingly, the stronghold’s founder Akhenaten is often viewed as a disruptor, notably breaking from the civilization’s polytheistic tradition in favor of solely worshipping the sun god ...

Archeologists work in the blazing sun at the site ... who worships one particular god, while acknowledging the existence and potential worship of other deities. Akhenaten, Hawass said, was ...