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I have now writen many lenses about Ancient Egypt and Egyptology, and am still adding to my collection. To hold you find the lenses about the subjects which interest you, I have compiled this indexed lensograpgy of my Egypological lenses.
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Amarna
Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their daughters
Akhenaten
Akhenaten also moved the capital to a brand new site in Middle Egypt, a location we know today as Amarna. The religous freedom also brought about a cultural renaissance and Amarna art is highly prized, with the famous stautue of Nefertiti being one of the world's greatest objets d'art.
Akhenaten himself is a strange figure. He is often shown with breasts and broad, feminine hips. It is unclear whether this represenation was based on fact, or an intent to portray a male-female duality. This could be resolved if his mummy was found, but that raises another mystery. Some Egyptologists believe his mummy was found in enigmatic tomb 55; still others believe this mummy was somebody else, perhaps even a woman.
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Akhenaten
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Aknhenaten,the "Hertetic King" is one of the most interesting pharaohs oof the 18th Dynasty.
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Amarna Royals
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Akhetaten
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Great Hymn to the Aten
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The Great Hym to the Aten in a ground-breaking religous text from Ancient Egypt found in the tomb of Pharaoh Ay Somtime around 1348BC the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten established a monotheistic religion in Ancient Egypt called Atenism....
Nefertiti's Daughters
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Nefertiti's Daughters
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Nefertiti was more than Akhenaten's Queen; she was a mother and her legacy lived on in her children.Two of her daughters became Queens and one may have ruled as Pharaoh. More intriguingly, who was the mother of Tutankamun? Two of the leading theories...
The three eldest daughters, Meritaten, Meketaten and Ankhesenpaaten were the senior princesses and went on to become queens in their own right. Meketaten died young, probably in child birth and was buried in the Royal Tomb at Amarna; the fate of Meritaten is something of a mystery. She disappears but it is possible she became pharoah - a feat only match in the New Kingdom by Hatshepsut.
The most successful daughter was Ankhesenenpaaten. She married Tutankhamun and changed her name to Ankhesenamun. As Queen Ankhesenamun, she reigned as Tutankhamun's consort for nearly ten years, disappearing from history shortly after the death of her husband.
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Meritaten
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Meritaten, the daughter of Akhenaten and Queen Neferiti became the Queen of Pharaoh Smenkhare & perhaps even Pharaoh in her own right This lens by Kate Phizackerley is dedicated to the little known Queen Meritaten of Egypt's 18th Dynasty...
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Meketaten
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Meketaten was the second daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti The details of Meketaten's brief life are scanty but it is possible she died in childbirth which in turn suggests she was a Queen and married to a Pharaoh, possi...
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Ankhesenamun
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Married to Tutankhamun when he was just nine, Ankhesenamun was his Great Royal Wife for his relatively brief reign as King This Ancient Egypt lens by Kate Phizackerley covers the life of Ankhesenamun who may have been the queen of four p...
The younger three daughters (Neferneferuaten-Tasherit, Neferneferure and Setepenre) had tragically short lives, but are are suprisingly interesting all the same.
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Setepenre
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Setepenre was the 6th, and probably last, daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. This Ancient Egypt lens by Kate Phizackerley presents what little we know about this very minor princess. The image shown is the hieroglyphic...
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Neferneferure
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Princess Neferneferuré was the 5th daughter of Pharaoh Aknhenaten and Queen Nefertiti. This is a biography of the little-known Princess Neferneferuré of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt's New Kingdom. In truth, we know relatively about her as sh...
Tutankhamun
and his successors, Ay and Horemheb
King Tutankhamun and his wife Queen Ankhesenamun
Images suggest that he was close to his with Ankhesenamun; however, her tomb has never been found. It is not even clear that she was burried in state as the outlived Tutankhamun and seems to have fallen quickly into disfavour under his successor, Ay, even though Ay is believed to have married her to consolidate his own claim to the throne.
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Tutankhamun's Tomb KV62 and Treasures
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Tutankhamun's treasures from KV62 King Tut's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings have thrilled the world for 90 years. Discover them for yourself in this lens by Kate Phizackerley author of the popular News from the Valley of the Kings . Photo ©...
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Toutânkhamon
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Toutankhamon (ou Toutânkhamon) (né v. -1345BCE, mort en -1327BCE) est le pharaon (roi) le plus célèbre de la XVIIIe dynastie (Nouvel Empire). En cette page vous trouverez des informations sur les trésors incroyables avér...
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Ankhesenamun
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Married to Tutankhamun when he was just nine, Ankhesenamun was his Great Royal Wife for his relatively brief reign as King This Ancient Egypt lens by Kate Phizackerley covers the life of Ankhesenamun who may have been the queen of four p...
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Tutankhamun
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The Boy-king Tutankhamun is the most of all of Ancient Egypt's pharaohs because of the maginificent treasures found within Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Tragically he died as a teenager and had no surviving children, but left beh...
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Tutankhamun - Missing Papyri?
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Other tombs had yielded bits of papyrus. Egyptologists had hoped that Tutankhamun's intact tomb woud yield a cache of complete papyri. When Howard Carter first opened the tomb, he indicated that the tomb contained a box of papyri. In the end, schola...
Ankhesenamun's Daughter
It is believed that Ankhesenamun had one daugher before she married Tutankhamun.-
Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit
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Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit (Ankhesenpaaten the Younger) was probably the daughter of Ankhesenpaaten (better known as Ankhesenamun, the Great Royal Wife of Tutankhamun). Very, very little is known of Ankhesenpaaten but I have done the best I can to colle...
King Ay
Ay was an old man and reigned for only 3 years. His tomb is a lage one, WV23 in the Western Valley of the Kings. It is often thought that he probably usupered the tomb Tutankhamun had usupred for his own use so it is ironic that his tomb was plundered but Tutankhamun, shunted into a small, obscure tomb, slept the millenia in peace.
Horemheb and his Queen Mutnodjmet
The final pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty was Ay's successor, Horemheb. A military man he too was outside the normal line of royal succession.Horemheb reigned for about 27 years and was burried in the tomb we know as KV57. This tomb has some beautiful decoration but it has suffered several floods: the plasterwork has been badly damaged and any funerary goods which survived the grave robbers were smashed by the water and falling rock.
The Ancient Egyptians were mostly interested in the lives of their pharaohs. The lives of wives were generaly not recorded. As a man not of royal birth, we know nothing of his first wife. We do, however, know something of his second wife, Mutnodjmet who became his Queen - although even in her case details such as her parentage are mostly a matter of deduction - or guesswork.
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Horemheb
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Horemhen was the last Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. It takes time to develop great content. Progress is proceeding nicely it should be finished in the next couple of weeks so please come back soon.
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Queen Mutnodjmet
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The Ancient Egyptian Queen Mutnodjmet was the Great Royal Wife of Horemheb, the final pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. Mutnodjmet may have been the daughter of Queen Nefertiti and lived about 3,500 years ago. King's Great Wife Sister of the King's Great...
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Ay
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Ay was Tutankhamun's successor. Image by Keith Schengili-Roberts, released under he terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 Almost there now but this lens is still under developmemt. Please come back soon.
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Horemheb
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Horemhen was the last Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. It takes time to develop great content. Progress is proceeding nicely it should be finished in the next couple of weeks so please come back soon.
Valley of the Kings
General
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Valley of the Kings
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The Valley of the Kings is the burial ground of most pharaohs of the New Kingdom including Tutankhamun. This lens by Kate Phizackerley is one of her series of lenses about Ancient Egypt. Read on to find out more about this famous tourist site, and i...
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News from the Valley of the Kings
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News from the Valley of the Kings by Kate Phizackerley is the leading blog bringing the latest news from Luxor, the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens and the surrounding area. Photograph © Kate Phizackerley, 1997 under a Creative Co...
Howard Carter
Howard Carter discovered a number of tombs, most famously that of Tutankhamun.-
Tutankhamun's Tomb KV62 and Treasures
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Tutankhamun's treasures from KV62 King Tut's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings have thrilled the world for 90 years. Discover them for yourself in this lens by Kate Phizackerley author of the popular News from the Valley of the Kings . Photo ©...
Dr Otto Schaden
In 2005. Dr Otto Schaden discovered the first new 'tomb' for 70 years.-
Tomb KV63 in the Valley of the Kings
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On February 10, 2006, on behalf of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, Dr Zahi Hawass announced that a team from the University of Memphis had discovered a new tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings: KV63. This was the first tomb found in t...
Alternative Egytology
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Giza Plateau
Is there are Hall of Records beneath the pyramids and Sphinx at Giza? Is there a Tomb of Hermes or a Tomb of Osiris? These sort of subjects are covered in these special lenses-
Beneath The Pyramids
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I haven't read this yet, but I want to. As a British reader I can get a signed copy direct from Andrew Collins. If that interests you, then please see Andrew's website, although there is a wait.Overseas readers, and anybody who do...
Ancient Egypt for All
Egyptology Community Blogs
Ancient Egypt for All is designed to offer an alternative. By sharing the writing burden among several writers, even casual writers can have their material on a high ranking site with a strong readership. I'll promote it. It's broken into various sections
- Ancient Egypt Old Kingdom
- This section is about the Egyptian Old Kingdom, the age of the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx.
- Ancient Egypt for All Project News
- Keep track of the development of the project and site news on this special section.
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