THE TRAGEDY QUEEN
Friends you might have heard about many Queens till date Who spend their life, in success and valor. But today we will describe a queen, who's life was worst The most successful queen of Egypt, Nefertiti's daughter and the most famous King, Tutankhamun's wife Ankhsunamun.
Friends you might have heard about many Queens till date Who spend their life, in success and valor. But today we will describe a queen, who's life was worst The most successful queen of Egypt, Nefertiti's daughter and the most famous King, Tutankhamun's wife Ankhsunamun.
, who is known as '"THE TRAGEDY QUEEN''
and she is also known as
'"THE LOST QUEEN''
Ankhesenamun was a queen of the
Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
who was born in 1348 BC?
she was the third of six known daughters of the
Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and
his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti,
Ankhesenpaaten was born in a time when
Egypt was in the midst of,
an unprecedented religious revolution (c. 1348 BC).
Her father had abandoned the old
deities of Egypt
God Amun was the most popular God in ancient Egypt
favor of the Aten, hitherto a minor aspect of the sun-god
Due to which Amun
was banned first,
The Priests were unhappy with the Paroh,
she was named as
Ankhesenpaaten after her birth
later she changed her name
to Ankhesenamun.
because she was the third of six sisters,
The three eldest daughters including Ankhesenamun
became the "Senior Princesses"
and participated in many functions of the government and religion.
It is said, after her mother's death
she was forcefully married to her father
before she was! 3 years old.
But this has not been confirmed yet
Akhenaten died in
1336 BC, His son and
Ankhesenamun's step brother
Tutankhaten
took over the kingdom,
Tutankhaten
Revoked his father's religious restrictions, And re-established
Egypt's traditional practices.
when Ankhesenamun was 8-9 years old
she was married to her stepbrother
Tutankhaten.
Tutankhaten was
13 years old
In order to To bring back balance in Egypt,
their first step was to change their name
Tutankhaten changed his name to
Tutankhamun,
and Ankhesenpaaten changed her name to
Ankhesenamum, They took care of priests too,
both were the child of the same father,
mothers were different,
Tutankhamun was the son of Kiya
or the younger lady
whereas Ankhesenamun was the daughter of Nefertiti,
Because the Queen and the Pharaoh
were young, their guide
AY and Horemheb always stood behind and
guided them before making
important decisions
together they ruled Egypt for 10 years
and had 2 beautiful daughters
But did not survive due to
health problems, both the girls' mummy has been recovered
along with the mummy of Tutankhamun, The DNA report has confirmed that both mummies
belongs to Tutankhamun's children.
Tutankhamun died in 1327,
Ankhesenamun did not have any son from her marriage
who would become the successor of Tutankhamun,
AY took over the throne
cunningly,
and forced Ankhesenamun to marry him
during that time there was a rule that the successor of the throne
will have to marry the previous king's widow
legitimize his claim to the throne of Egypt
but 23 years old Queen had different
plans in her mind
she did not want to marry AY,
AY was much older than her,
AY was probably Ankhesenamun's grandfather,
in order to ask for help
she wrote a letter to
Suppiluliuma, the letter is recently found
in which it is written:-
The king doubted her
but later when he was sure
that Ankhesenamun really wanted
to marry one of his sons,
The king sent one of his sons ZANNANZA to Egypt
to marry Queen Ankhesenamun
but the prince died,
perhaps murdered, en route.
If the prince had reached Egypt,
he would have been married to the queen
and the prince would have become the new king of Egypt
and AY's dream of ruling the kingdom would break
after this incident, she disappears from history
many Historians believe
after writing letters to
hitti king suppiluliuma
AY or Horemheb
killed the Queen,
in 2010 two female mummies
KV21(a) and KV21 (b)
were found
One of the mummies is believed to be
Ankhesenamun's
DNA of this mummy matches the mummies of
Tutankhamun's two daughters mummy,
But the mummy is still not identified as Ankhesenamun's mummy
If Ankhesenmun's body is found,
many secrets of history will be revealed.
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