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 ...

From the Great Pyramid of Giza to the site’s mystifying Sphinx standing on the Giza Plateau, to the colossal religious temples of Karnak and Luxor and the legendary Valley of the Kings and Queens – ...

Like the Emperors of early imperial Rome, ancient Egyptian kings received formal worship during their lifetimes. However, they were mortal: this creates a duality, of divine eternal kingship and ...

In the theory of ancient Egyptian kingship, all kings were of one substance with the sun-god, and merged with him after death; the body of each king rested in the burial chamber of the tomb, as the ...

Pharaohs were the kings of Ancient Egypt. They ruled over the land, collected taxes from the people, enforced the law and led the Egyptian army against invaders. Tutankhamun, or King Tut as he is ...

The ancient Egyptians ... pharaohs. But they also spent time and treasure creating hidden underground mausoleums. The most famed collection of such elaborate tombs—the Valley of the Kings ...

But experts now think it was more likely to have been a fall. Today King Tutankhamun is one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian pharaohs, mostly thanks to the determination andpersistence of ...

Much of our understanding of the Ancient Egyptians is based on archaeological findings in the Valley of the Kings and other key areas across Egypt. Many of the tombs of the most famed pharaohs have ...