Nefertiti is Egypt's most admired queen. She is a queen from the ancient Egyptian world. Famous for how she rules, she was also known for her admiring beauty. Her flame sparked up at the beginning of her life, brighter than ever as Queen, now gone when she disappeared. Nefertiti’s family played a significant role in her early life. Nefertiti had a family of her own at a young age. Nefertiti became the wife of the pharaoh (Simon). She ended up having six daughters with her husband (“Nefertiti”), who was named Akhenaton. He was a high-powered pharaoh ruling for about 17 years. When she and Akhenaten got married, she was especially young. She was thought to be around the ages of 12-16 (Simon). It was widespread in Egyptian culture for royalty to marry their family and
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After Akenaton’s 12th regnal year, three princesses disappeared (presumed to have perished), one princess died, and Nefertiti vanished (Tyldesley). Most scholars now believe that Nefertiti just simply passed soon after Akenate’s 14th regnal year (“Nefertiti”). There is some speculation that she may have died at Armana (Tyldesley). It is unreliable that Nefertiti's tomb would be in the royal tomb. Egyptologists have suggested that Nefertiti was an unidentified corpse in the tomb. Scholars also believed that there was a chance that Nefertiti could have been banished from the royal court, as her name is no longer in later texts (Simon). In the early 21st century, there was an unidentified “young girl” who was speculated to have been Nefertiti. Later on, the suspicion died down because the girl was said to be way too young to have been the lost queen. The simplest understanding is that Nefertiti may have passed, but there is still no record of her passing (“Nefertiti”). There are multiple theories of Nefertiti's tomb, but no one has found her. Scholars have started looking in the tomb of her stepson, but she is nowhere to be
After Akenaton’s 12th regnal year, three princesses disappeared (presumed to have perished), one princess died, and Nefertiti vanished (Tyldesley). Most scholars now believe that Nefertiti just simply passed soon after Akenate’s 14th regnal year (“Nefertiti”). There is some speculation that she may have died at Armana (Tyldesley). It is unreliable that Nefertiti's tomb would be in the royal tomb. Egyptologists have suggested that Nefertiti was an unidentified corpse in the tomb. Scholars also believed that there was a chance that Nefertiti could have been banished from the royal court, as her name is no longer in later texts (Simon). In the early 21st century, there was an unidentified “young girl” who was speculated to have been Nefertiti. Later on, the suspicion died down because the girl was said to be way too young to have been the lost queen. The simplest understanding is that Nefertiti may have passed, but there is still no record of her passing (“Nefertiti”). There are multiple theories of Nefertiti's tomb, but no one has found her. Scholars have started looking in the tomb of her stepson, but she is nowhere to be