New Kingdom — stories and articles

Everything on WonderBooks tagged New Kingdom: 1 article and 30 illustrated stories, free to read with audio narration.

Articles

• Why Ramesses III Was Not in His Tomb: A Royal Mummy's Surprising Journey

Illustrated stories

• Akhenaten
  Closed Egypt's temples for a single god, built a capital in empty desert, and was erased for it
• Amenhotep III
  Ruled the richest, most peaceful years Egypt would ever know, and built on a scale nobody matched
• Amun, the Hidden One
• Hatshepsut and the Voyage to Punt
  Ruled as king for twenty years and sent a fleet to Punt, then had her name chiselled out
• How a Hieroglyph Actually Works
• Karnak, the Temple That Was Never Finished
• Nefertari: A Temple of Her Own
  A queen given a temple of her own and the most beautiful painted tomb in Egypt
• Ramesses II
  Reigned sixty-six years, signed the first peace treaty on record, and carved his name on everything
• Ramesses III
  The last pharaoh to win a great war, and the first known to face a strike by his own workmen
• Seti I
  Restored Egypt's empire and left the finest carved reliefs ever cut in Egyptian stone
• The Amarna Letters
  three hundred clay tablets of royal correspondence, in the wrong language, from the wrong country
• The Battle of Megiddo
• The Bust of Nefertiti
  an unfinished workshop model, its one missing eye, and the other faces found on the same shelf
• The Cache of Kings
• The Conspiracy Against Ramesses III
• The Curse, and Who It Was For
• The Expulsion of the Hyksos
• The Founding of Akhetaten
• The Karnak Cachette
  a pit under a courtyard holding eight hundred statues, and why they were buried rather than broken
• The Mask of Tutankhamun
  eleven kilograms of gold, the nested coffins it sat inside, and the throne that came out of the same room
• The Restoration of the Gods
• The Step in the Rubble
• The Strike at Deir el-Medina
• The Unfinished Obelisk
• The War of the Sea Peoples
• The Year Egypt Had One God
• Thutmose III
  Fought seventeen campaigns and built the largest empire Egypt ever held
• Tutankhamun: The Tomb the Robbers Missed
  A boy king who undid his father's revolution, and whose intact tomb made him the most famous of them all
• What Killed Tutankhamun
• Where Nefertiti Went