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Study anchors obscure pharaoh in time, opening research path into dating the Exodus

A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose's reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with ...
Archaeology

The Divine King and His Queen

The 17-year reign of the pharaoh crowned as Amenhotep IV was one of the most revolutionary periods in Egyptian history. After the prosperous 39-year reign of his father, Amenhotep III, the pharaoh ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How the U.S. Government Deployed Grandma Moses Overseas in the Cold War

Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City (1946). Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of the Kallir Family in memory of Otto kallir. © Grandma Moses Properties Co., New ...
Archaeology

In the Reign of the Sun Kings

The pyramid of the Old Kingdom pharaoh Neferirkare is the tallest in the necropolis of Abusir, where most of the kings of Egypt’s 5th Dynasty were buried. Next to Neferirkare’s monument are the ...