Only living into her mid-20s, Ankhesenamun became the Queen of Egypt during the 18th Dynasty when she married King Tut.

His wife (and half-sister) Queen Ankhesenamun changed her name from Ankhesenaten (She Lives for the God Aten). Tut was young when he died. Most estimates put him at about 19.

His wife was Ankhesenpaaten, Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s daughter. If Akhenaten was, indeed, Tut’s father, that meant Tut married his half-sister—another point of incest in the family tree.

Tutankhamun and his wife, Ankhesenamun, depicted on a mural in Tut's tomb. (Image credit: Dea/G. Dagli Orti/De Agostini via Getty Images) Tutankhamun and his wife, Ankhesenamun, are shown in this ...

Nearly 5,400 cultural, political, religious, and historical objects were found inside King Tut’s tomb. Combined, they depicted what life was like in the Nile Valley during King Tut’s reign mo… ...

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He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

Tutankhamun himself may have suffered the consequences of this dynastic strategy. CT scans and further analysis of his remains revealed that he had a clubfoot, a cleft palate, necrosis in his left ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have made an exciting discovery: the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II, a ruler who has long been overshadowed by his famous wife and half-sister, Queen Hatshepsut.

Thutmose, who lived nearly 3,500 years ago, was an ancestor of Tutankhamun. His wife, Queen Hatshepsut, one of the few women to rule Egypt, had her mortuary temple on the Nile's west bank at Luxor ...