History with Kayleigh | Secrets About Tutankhamun Uncovered - His Sisters Ruled Egypt Before Him. @HistoryWithKayleigh | Uploaded June 2021 | Updated October 2024, 21 minutes ago.
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Was the throne held by a Queen before Tutankhamun was old enough to rule?
If so, who was this Queen? Or even better, as this story slash theory is quite juicy, who were these Queens?
It’s a question that Egyptologists, researchers and historians have asked themselves for many decades now, and it seems that they are agreeing on the answer after all this time.
It starts in the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt, King Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye had a son; Amenhotep IV but he is better known to the world as Akhenaten.
Akhenaten had a Royal wife; Nefertiti, although her lineage is uncertain.
There are theories about who her parents are, for instance Ay and his wife Tey are sometimes ascribed to be her parents, but they’ve never been explicitly called her father or mother in any existing sources.
It’s been proposed that Nefertiti was Athenaten’s full sister, but this is contradicted by her titles as she doesn’t bear any titles that are used by the daughters of a Pharaoh.
There is another theory about her lineage that does make sense when looking at one of her titles.
The title is; “The beautiful woman has come” and it may signify a foreign origin.
Some scholars believe she is a Mitanni princess named Tadukhipa from Mesopotamia.
If this is true it would break the Royal Bloodline as we have discussed in my previous video.
Looking into the Linage of Nefertiti only makes me more confused, so I personally feel like she’s either a full sister of Akhenaten or the daughter of the later Pharaoh Ay.
Now that you are all equally as confused as I am, let’s take a look into Akhenaten’s reign and why any information from this period is extremely hard to come by.
Akhenaten as Pharaoh abolished Polytheism (The worshipping of multiple Gods) in Egypt and introduced Atenism a form of monotheism, the worship centered around 1 God; Aten.
Not only did he change the entire base of religion in his empire, he also moved the Capital from Thebes modern day Luxor in the Luxor Governorate to Akhetaten modern day Amarna in the Minya Governorate.
The location of Akhetaten was approximately halfway between Thebes in the South and Memphis in the North on the east bank of the Nile river.
Besides these 2 radical decisions Akhenaten also made the revolutionary decision to make his favorite Queen and Great Wife Nefertiti a full equal in rank and statues, Elevating her status as Royal Wife and Queen to Co-Pharaoh, joint ruler.
Because of these choices Akhenaten made there was much unrest in the Egyptian Kingdom, the economy was shattered and to make it even worse near the end of his reign a devastating plague might have come down on his people.
The coregency Stela that according to some scholars might depict Nefertiti was recarved to show the names Ankhesenpaaten and Neferneferuaten.
Egyptologist Aidan Dodson proposed that the daughters Ankhesenpaaten and Neferneferuaten were chosen to rule as coregents to Tutankhamun in the case of Akhenaten passing away and Tutankhamun being to young to rule.
In the 17th year of Akhenaten’s rule he died, while Tutankhamun was approximately 5 or 7 years of age.
The actual age of Tutankhamun at the time of Akhenaten’s death is unclear because there is debate about the year Akhenaten started and ended his reign.
Akhenaten might have reigned from 1353 – 1336 BCE or from 1351 – 1334 BCE.
Tutankhamun was born in 1341 BCE as Tutankhaten.
Either way, the actual age doesn’t necessarily matter, what matters is that it’s clear that Tutankhamun was too young to reign the kingdom of Egypt and therefore couldn’t take the throne after his father Akhenaten died.
Music; Adrian von Ziegler
sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horemheb
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritaten
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neferneferuaten_Tasherit
livescience.com/65433-king-tut-sisters-pharaoh.html
phys.org/news/2019-04-egyptologist-canada-theory-queen-tutankhamun.html
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/science/was-king-tut-a-fraud-new-evidence-points-to-a-female-pharaoh-who-ruled-before-him/news-story/c0321a53d3d03d2aa82e21ae011c43b4
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Was the throne held by a Queen before Tutankhamun was old enough to rule?
If so, who was this Queen? Or even better, as this story slash theory is quite juicy, who were these Queens?
It’s a question that Egyptologists, researchers and historians have asked themselves for many decades now, and it seems that they are agreeing on the answer after all this time.
It starts in the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt, King Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye had a son; Amenhotep IV but he is better known to the world as Akhenaten.
Akhenaten had a Royal wife; Nefertiti, although her lineage is uncertain.
There are theories about who her parents are, for instance Ay and his wife Tey are sometimes ascribed to be her parents, but they’ve never been explicitly called her father or mother in any existing sources.
It’s been proposed that Nefertiti was Athenaten’s full sister, but this is contradicted by her titles as she doesn’t bear any titles that are used by the daughters of a Pharaoh.
There is another theory about her lineage that does make sense when looking at one of her titles.
The title is; “The beautiful woman has come” and it may signify a foreign origin.
Some scholars believe she is a Mitanni princess named Tadukhipa from Mesopotamia.
If this is true it would break the Royal Bloodline as we have discussed in my previous video.
Looking into the Linage of Nefertiti only makes me more confused, so I personally feel like she’s either a full sister of Akhenaten or the daughter of the later Pharaoh Ay.
Now that you are all equally as confused as I am, let’s take a look into Akhenaten’s reign and why any information from this period is extremely hard to come by.
Akhenaten as Pharaoh abolished Polytheism (The worshipping of multiple Gods) in Egypt and introduced Atenism a form of monotheism, the worship centered around 1 God; Aten.
Not only did he change the entire base of religion in his empire, he also moved the Capital from Thebes modern day Luxor in the Luxor Governorate to Akhetaten modern day Amarna in the Minya Governorate.
The location of Akhetaten was approximately halfway between Thebes in the South and Memphis in the North on the east bank of the Nile river.
Besides these 2 radical decisions Akhenaten also made the revolutionary decision to make his favorite Queen and Great Wife Nefertiti a full equal in rank and statues, Elevating her status as Royal Wife and Queen to Co-Pharaoh, joint ruler.
Because of these choices Akhenaten made there was much unrest in the Egyptian Kingdom, the economy was shattered and to make it even worse near the end of his reign a devastating plague might have come down on his people.
The coregency Stela that according to some scholars might depict Nefertiti was recarved to show the names Ankhesenpaaten and Neferneferuaten.
Egyptologist Aidan Dodson proposed that the daughters Ankhesenpaaten and Neferneferuaten were chosen to rule as coregents to Tutankhamun in the case of Akhenaten passing away and Tutankhamun being to young to rule.
In the 17th year of Akhenaten’s rule he died, while Tutankhamun was approximately 5 or 7 years of age.
The actual age of Tutankhamun at the time of Akhenaten’s death is unclear because there is debate about the year Akhenaten started and ended his reign.
Akhenaten might have reigned from 1353 – 1336 BCE or from 1351 – 1334 BCE.
Tutankhamun was born in 1341 BCE as Tutankhaten.
Either way, the actual age doesn’t necessarily matter, what matters is that it’s clear that Tutankhamun was too young to reign the kingdom of Egypt and therefore couldn’t take the throne after his father Akhenaten died.
Music; Adrian von Ziegler
sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horemheb
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritaten
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neferneferuaten_Tasherit
livescience.com/65433-king-tut-sisters-pharaoh.html
phys.org/news/2019-04-egyptologist-canada-theory-queen-tutankhamun.html
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/science/was-king-tut-a-fraud-new-evidence-points-to-a-female-pharaoh-who-ruled-before-him/news-story/c0321a53d3d03d2aa82e21ae011c43b4
