Mas a330 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (10 years 1 week 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1118 times:
91 years after archaeologists unearthed a limestone bust of Queen Nefertiti in 1912, a British Egyptologist now claims to have found the mummy of this ancient beauty from Egypt's 18th dynasty.
Nefertiti is the wife of the controversial pharaoh Akhenaten (1353-1336BC), and step-mother to the most famous pharaoh of all, Tutankhamun. The mummy was found in a secret side chamber in tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings.
This discovery could be the biggest archeological milestone since the finding of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 75 Reply 6, posted (10 years 1 week 3 days ago) and read 990 times:
Nefertiti's husband was the one who was really hated, due to the fact he changed the religion to worship of just one god (the sun god). Nefertiti was hated y association is anything. She actually presided over many of the ceremonies and such that the pharaoh did as well, which was very unheard of back then. If I remember correctly, after her death, priests had moved her body to another location in order to preserve it from the looters and plunderer's.
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Bobrayner From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2003, 2227 posts, RR: 7 Reply 7, posted (10 years 1 week 3 days ago) and read 982 times:
ISTR Nefertiti supported her husband's changes, and stuck with them even after his death, so it's probably not just association.
As well as being Akhnaton's wife, I think Nefertiti was also his cousin or half-sister? On the side of Akhnaton's mother, whom Akhnaton supposedly also got jiggy with...
Although, yes, Amenhotep / Akhnaton was the focus for most of the anger. I guess that helps explain why his successor (who definitely married his father's daughter, and was probably also his father's brother in addition to being a son and son-in-law) was so popular despite doing very little other than maintain the old ways.
The relationships are more complex than Sunset Beach
Continental From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 5476 posts, RR: 20 Reply 8, posted (10 years 1 week 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 980 times:
I read about it in time. A darn shame that looters had to go in and smash the mummies. They probably thought some cool, expensive gold item was inside the chest cavity!
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