The first act of the drama begins in about 1390 B.C., several decades before Tutankhamun's birth, when the great pharaoh Amenhotep III assumes the throne of Egypt. Controlling an empire stretching ...

Paramessu grew up in one of the most unusual periods in Egyptian history. The pharaoh Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten, who assumed the throne about the time that Paramessu was born ...

Amenhotep III's primary devotion, however, was to Amun-Ra, a combination of Thebes' deity Amun and the northern Egyptian sun god Ra. According to an inscription describing the pharaoh's conception ...

Aten is located near the ancient capital of Thebes. It dates back to the time when Pharaoh Amenhotep III was in power. Professor of Egyptian art and archaeology at Johns Hopkins University ...

Amenhotep III was the grandfather of Tutankhamun ... earning him acclaim as one of the greatest pharaohs, immortalised in dozens of statues. Using data from the skull of his mummy, a multinational ...

Few building sprees in history can match that of Amenhotep III, and few pharaohs' lives are so well documented—even his birth is commemorated in stone reliefs at Luxor. He came to the throne ...

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Famed pharaohs like Ramses II and Amenhotep III had no such modification. Tutankhamun, plagued with health issues, likely had a clubfoot, cleft palate, and bone disease. He died at 19, possibly ...