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3300-Year-Old Palace Wall Painting Depicts Naturalistic Expression of Birds, Details Help Identify the Species
Old Palace Wall Painting Depicts Naturalistic Expression of Birds, Details Help Identify the Species The detailed painting on ...
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Meet King Tut’s Father, Egypt’s First Revolutionary
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 ...
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Researchers claim Tutankhamun's burial mask may have been made for a woman—but there is reason to doubt
His father, the so-called heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and his stepmother, the famed Nefertiti, had been ruling from their new city in middle Egypt, Akhetaten (modern day Tell el-Amarna). There ...
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Searching for the Lost City of Copper
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 ...