The detailed painting on the palace walls at the ancient Egyptian capital of Amarna was discovered around a century ago. Modern researchers attempted to identify the species in the painting as the ...

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 ...

Life in Ancient Egypt Akhentanen, the Amarna Period, and Tutankhamun This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Baker, Darrell. 2008. Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs, Volume I: ...

Dating to 1375 B.C., these words are from the collection of tablets known as the Amarna Correspondence, a cache of diplomatic exchanges discovered in the late 19th century. Historians identify the ...