M7 Mike Costa Lives: The Fake King Ay in KV62

The Fake King Ay in KV62

A New Theory by Michael J. Costa,

Based on the Research & Theories of Dr. Nicholas Reeves

Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves has been studying the confusion that followed the removal of Akhenaton from power. Akhenaton either died, or was deposed, with his heirs fighting to control the power vacuum in his wake. The name “Nefer-neferu-Aton” was applied to Queen Nefertiti as Akhenaton’s wife. It was also later applied to “Ankh-kheperura” as “Nefer-neferu-aton Ankh-kheperura.” Reeves believes this person is another incarnation of Nefertiti, rather than someone else or a fused name of 2 people – the Gods had fused names, like Amon-Ra or Ptah-Osiris or Ra-Horus, so why not people as well? He also said the person who “wrote 2 letters to the Hittites asking for a Hittite Prince to marry” is also Nefertiti. So Nefertiti, Reeves theorizes, was buried in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings that later became the same place as Tutankhamon’s.

The tomb of Tutankhamon (KV-62) was recently photographed with precise instruments and a replica tomb was built in Egypt for tourism purposes as the original tomb is becoming dangerous and ill-fated for tourism, and its paintings are deteriorating. The original was shown to have “invisible seams that form doorways behind the plaster.” This was done with special equipment that removed colors so the area could be viewed differently. Reeves believes this “hidden chamber” leads to Queen Nefertiti’s tomb or resting place, because the painting in the burial chamber was painted over its original occupants for Tutankhamon’s use. Reeves speculates the painting of Tut was Nefertiti and the King Ay was actually Tut performing a ceremony for her, because Ay has Tut’s facial features with Ay’s names above his head. The ceremony was the Opening of the Mouth ceremony usually performed by the last male heir of the King or person at the gravesite. Ay was Tut’s last male heir and was always suspected of something nefarious over this depiction. Did Ay kill Tut and have him buried here?

If the KV55 mummy – a 20 to 40 year old male – with DNA as indicated by the exam by Egyptologists in 2009 to be related to Tutankhamon as “his father,” is Akhenaton then Nefertiti is in KV62 hidden behind one of two plastered over doors hidden by inscriptions (according to Reeves).

There is one problem with that. A mummified head was found in KV40 that closely resembles Nefertiti’s portraiture. This is found in KMT Magazine Fall 2014 issue, or on Google Images: KV40 mummy. So who is behind Door #2?

KV-62 may be larger than originally discovered. Most Pharaonic tombs are of a grand scale, and Tut is libeled as being “unimportant” based on the size of his tomb. The rest of the tomb was bricked up and painted over, just as the burial chamber was when Howard Carter found it in 1922. The burial chamber had this small opening on the bottom, probably used by artists after they painted it as an exit, rather than as a “robber’s hole.” Two life-size, gilded wood Ka Statues painted black in imitation of the luxury wood Ebony stood guard there. Reeves states this burial chamber and the Antechamber was once “one complete hall” leading to another chamber. This would conform to “Queenly tomb design.” If robbers knew about this “fake wall” they would have plundered it entirely.

If Tut was reburied in KV62 it was long after he was forgotten. The arrangement of the items as found was “haphazard” or crammed together into the small space of this lesser building. The tomb was “robbed twice” because there were 3 plaster seals on the entrance – the original and 2 other seals for having sealed it three times total. If Queen Ankhsenamon died after Tut died, she would want to be with her husband, so had herself buried there and her section sealed off. Tut’s item were then re-arranged after her items and mummy were buried in KV62. The tomb was robbed once after this, then covered by debris during the next Dynasty and forgotten. (This is My Theory).

The Reeves Theory states that “the King Ay portraiture has Tut’s face because it is actually Tut performing the ceremony for Nefertiti.” I don’t see a Nefertiti in Tut’s Ka, Osiris, or Tutankhamon in the scene. If it was painted over, we would see paint underneath. If it was chiseled out there would be chisel marks. There are no marks. What if Ay was killed by Tut and buried in the chamber; then sealed off (rather than the other theory that Ay killed Tut)? Why would Tut kill Ay?

If Ankhesenamon wrote letters to the Hittites, who did she convey the message to? If Ay discovered this, he informed General Horemhab. Horemhab is absent when “Tut died,” so Ay became Pharaoh though Horemhab was his original heir and “Crown Prince.” Ankhesenamon wrote the letters believing Tut was dead, perhaps, or because she wanted to duplicate her mother by marrying a Hittite Prince? Peace treaties often allowed marriage to royals; if Akhenaton ignored the pleas of the Mitanni Empire being absorbed by the Hittites, did Nefertiti secretly make a backroom deal by marrying or mating a Hittite Prince? No Hittites would attack Egypt as long as a royal with Hittite blood was on the throne of Egypt. This Hittite Prince was the father of Smenkhkara, then. Smenkhkara would not be in line for the throne so he was married to Akhenaton’s daughter, Meritaton. This puts Smenkhkara and Meritaton as ½ siblings.

Horemhab didn’t like the Hittites yet he has the title of “Crown Prince” (Iry-pat). Both Smenkhkara and Horemhab had names with “Djeser-kheperu” in it, Horemhab adds a “Ra” to make “Djoser-kheperu-Ra.” The heirs of Akhenaton were:

Nefer-Neferu-Aton (Nefertiti) + Ankh-kheperu-ra (Ankhesenamon),

Ankh-kheperura + Smenkhkara

Smenkhkara + Djoser-kheperu (Horemhab?) with Queen Meritaton

If Ankh-kheperu-Ra was Ankhesenpaaton co-ruling with her mother Nefertiti, she later ruled with Smenkhkara. Ankhesenamon and Meritaton both had “daughters” named after them from Akhenaton’s incest-royal bloodline. These are “shared names.”

If Tut was alive when his Queen did this, did Horemhab bring him along to find the Hittite Prince? Meanwhile at home, Vizier Ay and Vizier Nakhtmin (Ay’s son?) declare Tut to be “dead” so Ay is crowned Pharaoh. Ay marries Ankhesenamon to keep her in power and out of trouble. Tut returns and is upset by this betrayal (similar to the Tut miniseries on Spike TV in 2015), so he kills the usurper Ay and his son Nakhtmin, places their mummies in KV62 and seals it off. Tut has himself portrayed as Ay, whom he impersonates for 4 more years, on the burial chamber. This is possible if Tut’s mummy is older than the given “19 years of age” OR if the mummy of Tut is someone else, like Nakhtmin, buried in his place? The original Tut is buried in KV23 (Ay’s tomb) and later buried in KV62 once the tomb is sealed there, in the unopened section. Another idea is that Tut is 19 and his age differs from when he started as Pharaoh, possibly at age 5 or 6. So he rules once as Nebkheperura for 9 or 10 years, then as Ay Kheper-Kheperura for 4 more years. He performs the Opening of the Mouth ceremony for Tut as Ay-Tut, essentially for himself. A leopard skin with metal claws was found in KV62, indicating Kheri-Heb equipment for this ritual. While he impersonates Ay he strengthens the worship of Tut as a Deity in Nubia.

The faces of Ay in KV-23 and KV-62 do not match. They are different people or a different artist painting either mural. Ay in KV-23 looks like it was painted over someone else.

KV-23 and KV-62 are similar in design; both have one painted burial chamber. KV-23 has a “Marsh scene” and KV-62 has the fake Ay performing the ceremony for Tut. KV-23 is similar to 19^th Dynasty tombs, in a straight line like King Sety’s tomb. KV-62 has the usual 18^th Dynasty spiral shape.

The chart about the tomb extension suggests Ankhesenamon is buried in KV62 after Tut died and his stuff was moved out and placed in the smaller section. Ay could be there, along with Nakhtmin, and whomever else a psychopathic Tut killed and covered up. Horemhab was said once to have been “Tut’s Guidance Counselor” when Tut became angry (or had psychotic episodes of rage); this was mentioned in a video of Egyptology on television.

If Smenkhkara is ½ Egyptian via Nefertiti and ½ Hittite via a Prince traded for a peace treaty, then Tut is not pure blooded Egyptian so he is wed to his “sister” Ankhesenamon. Mostly a peace treaty is between a son of Egypt and a foreign daughter. Akhenaton had only daughters. He was angry with Nefertiti for not giving him a son as heir, so he applies affection onto Smenkhkara as revenge, or mates his mother Tiye (for daughter Baketaton), Meritaton (for Meritaton Tasheri “junior”), Ankhesenpaaton (for Ankhesenpaaton Tasheri “junior”), etc. Then he “adopts Tut as his bodily heir.” Akhenaton needed an heir to continue his monopoly experiment.