Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Egypt by historian and curator Dr Campbell Price and comedian Sikisa to learn all about ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. One of the pieces in our collection that I get most excited about is the bust of Queen Nefertiti. Now, ...

In wartime, the course of the world is often accelerated in odd ways. To the sounds of sword thrusts and the thunder of cannons, entire empires have been dispersed, and fates brought together and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. So these two fragments, the first with the hieroglyphs inscribed on them, and the second which is kind ...

Akhenaten upended the religion, art, and politics of ancient Egypt, and then his legacy was buried. Now he endures as a ...

The confirmed burial locations of Akhenaten and Nefertiti remain uncertain despite decades of investigation. Akhenaten was originally buried at Amarna, but his body appears to have been moved after ...

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 ...

Two reports from China prompted me to revisit head binding — intentionally molding babies’ heads into strange shapes. (See my blog post from June 13, 2016, Honey, I Squished the Kids’ Heads!) Known to ...

In 1353 or 1351 BCE, Akhenaten became pharaoh and began a 17-year reign that moved Egypt’s court to Amarna and redirected ...

Moreover, the Queen was then only baptised a “coloured queen”. She was also nicknamed “The beautiful one has come”, a literal translation of Nefertiti. But what did she really look like? The question ...