New evidence suggests Tutankhamun’s sisters briefly ruled Egypt after Akhenaten’s death and before the boy king came of age. Statues and inscriptions may depict them as pharaohs, restoring polytheism ...

For centuries, cones depicted on Egyptian heads were thought to be symbolic. Excavations at Amarna revealed real wax cones buried with mummified remains around 1340 BCE. Likely made of beeswax, these ...