Previously, Egyptians had worshipped more than one god, but the pair made their subjects venerate just one — the sun disc Aten ... the Egyptian gods – his worship lasted thousands of years.

shook the foundation of Egyptian society. With the revolutionary zeal of a Lenin or Mao, Akhenaten swept away the old religion, replacing it with a monotheistic cult worship of the sun-disc Aten.

Egypt is home to one of the most ancient civilizations on Earth. Occupied continuously since the 4th millennium BCE, cities ...

An online letter asking for the repatriation of one of Ancient Egypt’s best-known sculptures has drawn nearly 10,000 signatures.

The king called his city Akhetaten, or Horizon of the Sun Disk, and soon this stretch ... and during Akhenaten’s reign most Egyptians continued to worship other gods. Barry Kemp says that ...

Amenhotep III ruled in the 18th dynasty at a time when Ancient Egypt was powerful and its economy expanding. The affluent and ...

King Tut’s main success was reinstalling the traditional Egyptian polytheistic religion upon his ascension, after his father had promoted the worship of only the Sun God Aten, and banned worship of ...

Take a look at how experts are restoring the Temple of Horus to its original colors from over 2,000 years ago atop tall ...

Some kind of ancestor worship, or perhaps if you were an aristocratic ... to mystery cults, to different Egyptian and Greco-Roman gods. Paganism continues on even after the conversion to Christianity.

He would have been placed in a crouched position, lying on a mat of rushes, facing the setting sun. And around ... central part of the Egyptian world that it even inspired worship.

When I first came across the Egyptian civilisation in ... and the many worship chambers—are all built in the likeness of ...