Sister consort of Tutankhamun
Third daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, she married Tutankhamun and became Great Royal Wife during Egypt's most turbulent religious shift — her name itself changed with the gods.
Born Ankhesenpaaten around 1348 BCE, she grew up in the iconographic record of her father Akhenaten's reign, appearing in reliefs and paintings as one of six daughters. She may have been married to her father before becoming Great Royal Wife to Tutankhamun; when he died, she likely married his successor Ay — possibly her own maternal grandfather. The renaming from Ankhesenpaaten ("she lives for the Aten") to Ankhesenamun ("Her Life Is of Amun") tracked the empire's religious about-face after Akhenaten's death. Her activity as queen beside Tutankhamun remains scantily documented. DNA testing in…
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