Nefiertiti

Nefertititi was one of the great queens known in the Egyptian history. She was queen and co-regent to Akhenaten, who was her husband. The two of them had six daughters but no sons. The two had a good relationship but Nefertiti had to share her husband and their relationship with many other women and queens. Which this would have been a common thing for the pharaohs to have many and not just one. (Shaw,Casson)


Nefertiti did not necessarily come from a royal blood line and is not even sure what her family members were. Her dad is guessed to be Ay the army officer and later the pharaoh. Ay is also thought to have might been the brother of Queen Tiye. These relations came when Nefertiti's sister was seen in many of the decorations in Ay's tomb. However these are not "written in stone" calculations. Source


During the reign of Akhenaten, Nefertiti played a large role not only was she a gorgious and beautiful queen which she was known as by her statues but she also was of great importance to the throne and what happened within the Amarna period of the eighteenth dynsty. She had a great influence over her husband, the pharaoh, which helped her a lot. Even in most of the artwork war of her being depicted from a pose not pharaoh Akhenaten. Source (Casson)



The Queen Nefertiti had many jobs and one of the most important was the she would go, along with her eldest daughter Meritaten and do the rituals to the gods for her husband, the pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti was very active in the change of religion for the Egyptians. In fact some people think that she might have caused and been the source of the change in the first place. This change in religion was going from a multi-theistic culture to a mono-theistic culture and this one god was the god of the sun, Aten. source (Casson,Shaw)


Nefertiti at the end of Akhenaten's reign disappeared. Many think it was because she must have disgraced the king. However earlier she had another one of his wives disgraced and erased. but afterward she got a new name that was, Neferneferuaten. She then came back after Akhenaten's death and even reigned for a short time after. source (shaw)


Nefertiti's death is unknown and all we have to made guesses and put the pieces of the puzzle together are what they left behind for us to see. This great Queen and woman left a great legacy for herself and us to have and know about. source


book sources:


Casson, Lionel. Ancient Egypt. Time Incorperated, New York: 1965.


Shaw, Ian. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, New York: 2000.