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Ankhesenamun ( ˁnḫ-s-n-imn, "Her Life Is of Amun "; c. 1348 [1] or c. 1342 – after 1322 BC [2]) was a queen who lived during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. Born Ankhesenpaaten ( ˁnḫ.s-n-pꜣ-itn, "she lives for the Aten"), [3] she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti.
Apr 29, 2023 · Ankhesenamun disappears from the historical record sometime between 1325 and 1321 B.C. — an absence that to historians signals her death. Because no one knows what happened to her, scholars have sometimes referred to King Tut’s wife as Egypt’s Lost Princess.
Apr 13, 2014 · Ankhesenamun ("Her Life is of Amun ") was a queen of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the third of six known daughters, and became the great royal wife of her half-brother Tutankhamun when he was just 8 to 10 years old and she was 13.
Ankhesenamen was the queen of ancient Egypt (reigned 1332–22 bce), who shared the throne with the young king Tutankhamen. Ankhesenamen was the third daughter of Akhenaton and Nefertiti, the couple who introduced the religious and cultural innovations of the Amarna period. She was probably married.
Apr 3, 2014 · Ankhsenamun (born c. 1350 BCE and known as Ankhesenpaaten in youth) was the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. She was married to her father and may have borne him one daughter, Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit ('Ankhesenpaaten the Younger'), before she was 13 years old.
Ankhesenamun may have been the Great Wife of Akhenaten for a short period after the death of Nefertiti. She may also have been married to Smenkhare (the successor of Akhenaten) before he too died. She then married Tutankhamun to confirm his status as the next pharaoh.
Jul 21, 2018 · After Tutankhamun died, she was possibly forced into marriage with her grandfather. Or, she may have been killed for attempting to form a union with Egypt’s number one enemy, the Hittites. Ankhesenamun was born c.1350 B.C., the third of the six daughters of Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti.
May 9, 2024 · Ankhesenamun, a key figure in Egypt’s Amarna Period, influenced its history through her marriages to Akhenaton and Tutankhamun. Her story intertwines with political and religious shifts, highlighting the impact of personal relationships on ancient Egypt’s cultural evolution.
Ankhesenamun, wife of the boy-king Tutankhamun , is portrayed in many ways; as a terrified and hapless youngster; a power-hungry murderess; or a loathsome vixen who will stop at nothing to achieve...
With her original name being Ankhesenpaaton, Ankhesenamun became popular in the second millennium BC as the queen of Egypt (1332 – 1322 BC), a royal sovereignty she shared with her teenage husband, King Tutankhamen (1332 – 1323 BC).
