In the early 20th century, King Tut's tomb sparked rumors of a potentially real and deadly curse, but one of the biggest mysteries stems from the identity of his missing pharoah father.

The king has been portrayed as a proto-Christian ... “Aten” in his name with the title of the god that his father had hated: Tutankhamun. He abandoned Amarna and returned to the old traditions.

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

FatherAkhenaten KV55The identity of King Tut’s father has long been a mystery. One candidate is the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten, who abandoned the gods of the state to worship a single deity.