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 ...

It is most likely these are the daughters of Tutankhamun and his wife Ankhesenamun and that they died before their father. It is rare to find a mummified fetus. The ancient Egyptians did mummify ...

Tutankhamun’s tomb may conceal fabled beauty Nefertiti, says archaeologist Researcher says hidden hieroglyphics indicate that Egyptian boy king had buried his stepmother years earlier in ...

The tomb of Tutankhamun and the first death attributed to the curse . In April 1923, ... In 1923, his wife shot and killed him at the Savoy Hotel in London, and a sensational trial followed.

King Tut’s tomb still has secrets to reveal 100 years after its discovery. ... Amarna, where he lived with his wife Nefertiti, six girls, one boy and around 20,000 followers.

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

It is most likely these are the daughters of Tutankhamun and his wife Ankhesenamun, and that they died before their father. It is rare to find a mummified foetus. The ancient Egyptians did mummify ...

His wife, Queen Hatshepsut, was one of the few women known to have ruled Egypt. Her mortuary temple is on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, not far from where her husband’s tomb was found.