QUEENS WHO RULE

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Nefertiti - Queen of Ancient Egypt

Nefertiti, which means "a beautiful woman has come" (aka Neferneferuaten) was the queen of Egypt and wife of the pharaoh Akhenaten/Akhenaton. Earlier, before his religious change, Nefertiti's husband was known as Amenhotep IV. He ruled from the middle of the 14th century B.C. She played religious roles in Akhenaten's new religion, as part of the triad that consisted of Akhenaten's god Aton, Akhenaten, and Nefertiti.

Nefertiti's origins are unknown. She might have been a Mitanni princess or the daughter of Ay, brother of Akhenaton's mother, Tiy. Nefertiti had 3 daughters at Thebes before Akhenaten moved the royal family to Tell el-Amarna, where the queen had another 3 daughters.

A February 2013 Harvard Gazette article, "A Different Take on Tut", claimed DNA evidence suggests Nefertiti may have been the mother of Tutankhamen (the boy pharaoh whose almost intact tomb Howard Carter and George Herbert discovered in 1922).

The beautiful Queen Nefertiti is often depicted wearing a special blue crown. In other pictures, it is surprisingly hard to distinguish Nefertiti from her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten.

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