JULIA BUDKA: The god's wife of Amun was really the female substitute of the king. MARIAM AYAD: The god's wife of Amun was as important as a medieval pope. NARRATOR: Who were these outsiders who ...

Amon-Ra’s name is a nod to ancient Egyptian beliefs, symbolizing brightness and strength. “The origin of my name comes from the Egyptian Sun God,” he explains. In mythology, Amun (or Amon ...

ALADIN ABDEL NABY / Reuters / Corbis Not long after Amenhotep III died, in 1353 B.C., masons entered his mortuary temple and methodically chiseled out every mention of Amun, the god said to have ...

In these processions, statues of the city’s most sacred gods—Amun-Re, supreme god, his wife, Mut, and his son, Khons—were placed in special vessels called barks and were then borne from one ...

Archaeologists and historians reveal how the ascent of The God’s Wife of Amun lifted some women to the highest echelons of religious, political, and financial power in the ancient Egyptian empire.

The statues of Egyptian gods Amun, Mut, and Khonsu may have been worn as amulets. Despite their hierarchical society, jewelry was for everyone in ancient Egypt. The poorest farmers and the richest ...