This gold ring shows an engraving of Bes
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed stunning gold jewellery, including a ring depicting the ‘god of fun’, in a burial that’s more than 3,300 years old, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced. The burial is located in the northern part of the ancient city of Akhetaten, modern-day Amarna, about 186 miles south of Cairo. This city was built by the pharaoh Akhenaten, who tried to change Egypt’s polytheistic religion by focusing it around the worship of the Aten, the sun disc. He moved Egypt’s capital city from Thebes in modernday Luxor to the newly built desert city of Akhetaten. Ultimately, Akhenaten’s religious reforms were undone by his son, Tutankhamun, and the new city was abandoned not long after Akhenaten’s death.