Nefertiti

Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV was the Pharaoh of Egypt in the 18th century. He was married to Nefertiti and had six girls with her. Four of them died at a young age from an unknown disease. However, they are believed to have passed away from a plague that was going around Egypt at the time. He also had a few other wives, but they were unnamed. He ruled Egypt for seventeen years and was known as a rebel king because he made some of the biggest changes in all of Egyptian history.…

Identity and celebration of life were very important in the ancient world. In some civilizations, a person’s identity is the most important part of death, as their identity serves as a key to the afterlife. In other civilizations, identity is also important, but they focus more on how the person lived their life because, in the end, death comes to everyone. I will be discussing two pieces: The Skull Mosaic and Akhenaten and Family. While these two pieces may seem like an odd comparison, I…

with legal rights that protected them, in divorce the mother typically received economic benefits if her partner were to commit infidelity . Politically, queens of Ancient Egypt had major influence an empire (Joshua Mark 2016). Female kings like Nefertiti and Sobeknefru proved that political barriers for female that were not possible to overcome could be a reality in Ancient Egypt (Joann Fletcher 2011). Women in Egypt had the power to rule over a land that is mainly dominated by male in other…

Tutankhamun lived more than 3,300 years ago during ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom era. Tutankhamun was born Tutankhaten which means “Living Image of the Aten”, in 1341 B.C. in Egypt. His father was Akhenaten known as the Heretic King and his mother was Nefertiti, who was also his sister. King Tutankhamun was one of the most well-known pharaohs of ancient Egypt. King Tutankhamen began school when he was four year’s old. He learned to read and write. He was a decent student and graduated with…

their safety and well-being, Akhenaten’s approval rating was so low that the pharaoh was all but erased from history by his successors. Little is known about Akhenaten himself. His reign was short-lived- only lasting sixteen years. His main wife, Nefertiti, was likely seen by him as an equal. The two had six daughters together, before Nefertiti’s passing twelve years into his reign. It has been confirmed that another child, one who would later call himself Tutankhamun, was spawned with a…

The role of women has long been influenced by the society they have resided in. From the time when they were solely involved in domestic work to today when they are making their presence felt in every industry. The ability of women to perform various tasks other than household duties was a cause of debate for centuries. It was not until the enlightenment period that the society broke the shackles and women progressed towards acquiring more central and pivotal roles in the society. Having said…

Reading and Watching: VT 13 & 14 Highlights: During these two units of architecture and Paleolithic Art, I have come across several highlights that will give one an idea of what each unit was about. In the video, “Cathedral of Norte Dame” by Khan Academy, explains how it was the oldest church in its era. It possessed a relic, which is an object that holds special powers, for example in this case, the supposedly Virgin Mary’s tunic. People would travel great distances to see the relic and be…

The impact of Akhenaten’s reign on Egyptian society Egypt has forever been the home of revolution; with the falling of Mubarak being merely the most recent one. About 3400 years ago, throughout the 13th century BCE, a rather unusual revolution occurred in Egypt, which became, and has become a subject of enormous controversy. Though it was only a momentary revolution, it was believed to have had great impacts on Egypt’s society, or civilization. To be specific, I am talking about the revolution…

Essay Topic 1 Around the year 2000 B.C.E., the rulers of Babylon integrated all of the surrounding regions of Sumer to organize the First Babylonian Empire. In order to successfully unite these regions, a strong and advantageous leader known as Hammurabi was chosen as the sixth King of the Babylonian Empire. Hammurabi developed a system of collecting a culmination of the local statutes and the existing legal practice codes and combined 282 laws with scaled punishments into one single body of…

learned Europeans believed that they earned the right to the treasures and monuments of Egypt because they were the only true ones who could appreciate them. He only highlights this understanding of antiquarianism with the life-like bust of Queen Nefertiti, which Waxman discusses, was a great treasure of the ancient world. The bust was relatively smuggled out of the country to be housed in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin by Barchardt, the archaeologist who uncovered it. Needless to say, Egypt was…