[12] Possible candidates for the author of the letter are Nefertiti, Meritaten,[4] and Ankhesenamun. [14], DNA testing announced in February 2010 has generated speculation that Ankhesenamun is one of two 18th Dynasty queens recovered from KV21 in the Valley of the Kings. Other researchers focus upon the phrase regarding marriage to 'one of my subjects' (translated by some as 'servants') as possibly a reference to the Grand Vizier Ay or a secondary member of the Egyptian royal family line, however, and that Ankhesenamun may have been being pressured by Ay to marry him and legitimize his claim to the throne of Egypt (which she eventually did). Select from premium Egyptian Museum Of Cairo of the highest quality. William DeLong is a freelance wordsmith. Every child and adult alike has heard about King Tut, and Carter and Carnarvon have both gone down in history and folklore due to the artefacts they uncovered in the Valley of the Kings. Here are some free Egyptian themed costume history colouring-in pictures for your personal use. Wikimedia CommonsA statue of Ankhesenamun and King Tut at Luxor. Born Ankhesenpaaten (ˁnḫ.s-n-pꜣ-itn, "she lives for the Aten"), she was the 3 of 6 known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. Because no one knows what happened to her, scholars have sometimes referred to King Tut’s wife as Egypt’s Lost Princess. Ankhesenamun disappears from the historical record sometime between 1325 and 1321 B.C. Everyone has heard of the famous boy king, Tutankhamun, but the name of his beloved sister and wife Ankhesenamun is rarely uttered.The tragic life of Ankhesenamun was well documented in the ancient reliefs and paintings of the reign of her parents, the pharaoh Akhenaten and his great royal wife Nefertiti, until the death of Tutankhamun when the young queen seems to have disappeared from … He eventually did send one of his sons, Zannanza, but the prince died en route, perhaps being murdered. The move away from Amun-Ra and the rest of the Egpytian pantheon, gradual at first, had a dramatic effect on the Egyptian state. Image 791732. A blue glass ring of unknown provenance obtained in 1931 depicts the prenomen of Ay and the name of Ankhesenamun enclosed in cartouches. King Tutankhamun, the Boy King, ruled for a mere 10 years but he is arguably the most famous of all the pharaohs. It was a decision that had the potential to undermine the entire Egyptian power structure, and it was particularly dangerous because it dismantled the authority of the priests, who were a powerful faction in their own right. [4], DNA test results on mummies discovered in KV21 were released in February 2010, which has given rise to speculation that one of two late 18th Dynasty queens buried in that tomb could be Ankhesenamun. It was a fate Ankhesenamun was destined to share. Also we can see his wife Ankhesenamun in front of him giving him the arrows and helping him to find the birds in the lotus flowers, artist unknown (circa 1300BC). Heirs might have stabilized Tut’s reign, and evidence supports the idea that he and Ankhesenamun tried without success to have children. As the third of six daughters of King Akhenaton and Nefertiti, she and her two older sisters were known as the “Senior Princesses”and were depicted much more often than their younger siblings in reliefs. The letter reads: My husband has died and I have no son. — an absence that to historians signals her death. Initially, she may have been married to her father and it is possible that, upon the death of Tutankhamun, she was married briefly to Tutankhamun's successor, Ay, who is believed by some to be her maternal grandfather. This head is a fragment from a statue group that represented a god seated on a throne with the young king Tutankhamun in front of him. Nov 19, 2018 - Born circa 1341 B.C.E., King Tut was the 12th king of the 18th Egyptian dynasty, in power from approximately 1332 to 1323 B.C.E. See more ideas about egyptian history, ancient egypt, egyptian art. If King Tut's tomb hides a secret burial chamber, the mummy inside could belong to the elusive pharaoh Smenkhkare, or to queen Meritaton, the full or half sister of Tutankhamun… The mummies of two female fetuses, five to eight months in age, were found in Tut’s tomb. Itory in Hurghada, EGYPT-DEKABR 20 2013. 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