Think about sifting through the rubble of an ancient city in order to collect common soil fertiliser when you happen upon a ...

Akhenaten and Nefertiti transformed Egypt through radical religious change, the founding of Amarna, and the elevation of Aten ...

Raids targeted several towns in the northern, southern and central West Bank, according to official media and eyewitnesses | ...

Israeli occupation authorities ordered the seizure of dozens of dunams of land belonging to the village of Zabda, near the ...

The designation Amarna letters (sometimes "Amarna correspondence") denotes an archive of correspondence, mostly diplomatic, between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and ...

In the golden age of the 18th Dynasty, Akhenaten uprooted Egypt’s royal court to build Amarna and impose the exclusive worship of Aten, a radical break from millennia of tradition. This episode traces ...

On Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, by Eric H. Cline. In 1887, at the aptly named “Horizon of the Sun Disk,” a new dawn broke on ...

During Art Basel Miami 2025, Casa Noosh and Amarna Gallery delivered one of the week’s most talked-about private events with The Gilded Affair, an ultra-exclusive evening hosted at the iconic Moore ...

When the Amarna Letters were first discovered in Egypt, many scholars thought they were fake. They were not written on papyrus, but clay tablets—a material that wasn’t used in the region. Nor were ...

An image of wall paintings in the Green Room just after excavation. What is shown here inspired a facsimile (below) but no longer survives in its original form. It’s easy to envision why the princess ...

Tell el-Amarna is the Arabic name of the place where, in 1430 BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten built a city that was to become the capital of the Egyptian Empire: Akhetaten, which means Horizon of Aten. There, ...

Akhenaten’s capital, Akhetaten, long thought abandoned due to plague, shows no archaeological evidence of an epidemic. Burial sites reveal no mass graves or delayed interments; most remains were ...