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Image: Tutankhamun on his throne

Rossella Lorenzi, writing for Discovery News, says that an inscribed limestone block found a few months ago in a storeroom at el Ashmunein, a village on the west bank of the Nile, some 150 miles south of Cairo, reveals who fathered the boy pharaoh King Tut.

According to Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the father of Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut, was Akhenaten, the famous king of who promoted religious reforms in Egypt.

Hawass said that slab provides “an accurate piece of evidence that proves Tut lived in el Amarna with Akhenaten.

This discovery is important because it sheds light on two famous Egyptian pharaohs and helps scholars in their study of an important period in the history of ancient Egypt.

Read the article by clicking here.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tags: Akhenaten, Amarna, Archaeology, Egypt, King Tut,Tutankhamun

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