Ankhesenamun

Egypt from approximately 1336-1327 B.C.. Tutankhamen took the reigns of the Egyptian throne after his (probable) father, Akhenaten. When Akhenaten was ruler, he and his wife, Ankhesenamun (Tutankhamen’s probable mother), essentially decided to change the beliefs and worship practices of all Egyptians. Akhenaten and Ankhesenamun wanted everyone to worship Aten, a god that represents the sun disk. Akhenaten even named his son after Aten – his child name Tutankhaten meaning “Living image of Aten”.…

to his previous magnificence and moving the capital back to Thebes. He deserted his unique name, Tutankhaten which signifies "living picture of Aten", for Tutankhamen, which signifies "living picture of Amun". Soon after he married his sister, Ankhesenamun. They attempted to have children together yet they turned out as still-conceived. Howard Carter discovered the two still-conceived in the tomb with King Tut within smaller than usual boxes. Tut passed on ten years after the fact at nineteen…

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Akhenaten was the son of Amenhotep III, who was the ninth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty. Akhenaten and Nefertiti ruled together from 1353 to 1336 B.C., which makes their reign seventeen years. They had six daughters together, one of which, Ankhesenamun will marry…

had to walk with a cane. He also had other birth defects that are caused from inbreeding. Experts have been able to prove this through testing like DNA and CAT scans. It doesn’t stop there for King Tutankhamun, he also married his half sister, Ankhesenamun. So when they had children they were stillborn or died right after birth because of severe birth defects from all of the inbreeding. King Tutankhamun is believed to have died from malaria, infection, and overall bad health which started from…