![]() ![]() The pharaoh himself was openly displayed as disfigured, with a distended belly, elongate face and feminine hips. Professor Angenot says evidence for this is in the creative and lifelike - though highly symbolic - art that exploded under the fresh-thinking Akhenaten. Professor Angenot also highlighted the similarities of this Hanover statue to the many feminine faces among King Tut's treasures. This is the case of a particularly fine head with female features preserved at the Kestner Museum in Hanover, Germany, and previously identified as a "young Akhenaton", although dated stylistically to the end of his reign," the art historian says in a university release. She argues anonymous sculptures of royal heads dating from the era - generally ascribed to Akhenaton and Nefertiti - are in fact portraits of the royal princess. But Professor Angenot says there are inscriptions indicating it was her whom Akhenaten crowned pharaoh from his deathbed. Some believe she died in the same plague that killed so many of her siblings. She was still too young to have children, but still older than the then-toddler Tut. Such a union of royal blood elevated her as next in line for the throne - and not some future husband from an outside family.Īkhenaten's next eldest, Ankhesenpaaten, was promised to the toddler Tutankhaten (who later renamed himself Tutankhamen to honour the old gods) who went on to formally marry his sister (renamed Ankhesenamun) when he was crowned.Īkhenaten's youngest daughter was princess Neferneferuaten Tasherit. ![]() This involved marrying his own eldest daughter, Meritaten. "He tried to prepare (each of) his four surviving children to be likely to rule at some point if the others died." "I believe that because of all these deaths, he (Akhenaten) kind of tried to prepare his succession," Angenot told Live Science. Instead, Professor Angenot believes, Tut's older sisters - Neferneferuaten, 12, and Meritaten, 14, stepped into her place. There is an argument Nefertiti died in the 16th year of Akhenaten's reign. She says Akhenaten's chief consort did not survive to take up the crown of upper and Lower Egypt. And combining this with a study of the symbology of body language in Egyptian art may have revealed they are, in fact, two different identities.Īnd this was a direct result of the plague that had destabilised Akhenaten's reign. ![]() She told the annual meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt in Virginia late last month that several royal sculptures thought to show Akhenaten or Nefertiti were in fact of a mystery queen. ![]()
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