Sunday, August 21, 2022

On a Lecture by Dr. Zahi Hawass at the De Young Museum...

 

 

 

Smenkhkara as Mother of Tutankhamon as Nefertiti

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In the recent lecture by Dr. Zahi Hawass at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, CA on August 20, 2022, about the parents of King Tutankhamon, he said “Queen Nefertiti is not the Mother of Tutankhamon,” and that “Akhenaton was the Father” according to Genetics. 

Akhenaton was the Father of Queen Ankhesenamon, who was daughter of Queen Nefertiti. Ankhesenamon is the Wife of Tutankhamon, and supposed parent of the 2 stillborn fetuses from KV62.  Smenkhkara was a co-ruler of Akhenaton.  Some believe Nefertiti became Smenkhkara as King. 

The Genetic Tests done on varied mummies said that one mummy from KV55 “is the Father of Tutankhamon,” or Akhenaton.  The female mummy that is the “mother of Tutankhamon” is the sister of KV55 Mummy/Akhenaton. 

Smenkhkara was a “sibling of Akhenaton” and “child of Amonhotep 3 Nebmaatra.” 

Nefertiti was never shown as a descendant of Amonhotep 3 Nebmaatra, BUT if she was actually Smenkhkara then she was the heir, allowing her to be co-ruler of Akhenaton. 

KV62 was the original tomb of Smenkhkara as King, in the Valley of the Kings.  It was “violated early during Tut’s reign.”  KV62 appeared to be “feminine in design.”  Nefertiti would not be in any “hidden chambers” if this was her tomb.  Nefertiti as Queen was never mentioned as an heir/child to Amonhotep 3 Nebmaatra, but Smenkhkara was.  So this means Dr. Zahi Hawass does not need to “find the mummy of Nefertiti” in a separate tomb.  She was already found. 

If Tut is the child of Smenkhkara/Nefertiti and Akhenaton, he would not need to marry a daughter of Akhenaton to be King.  Yet he was married to Queen Ankhesenamon, daughter of Nefertiti and Akhenaton.  Perhaps Ankhesenamon (Ankhesenpaaton) as Ankh-Kheperu-Ra needed to marry Tut to be his Queen as she was already King previously?  Akhenaton was married to Queen Meritaton as his Great Royal Wife during the later co-rulers; she was one of his daughters. 

So if Queen Nefertiti was not the mother of Tutankhamon, then the mother of Tutankhamon was King Smenkhkara, after she changed her name.  Akhenaton’s daughters from Nefertiti are older than Tut.  Lots of name changing happened during the late 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, causing confusion. 

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