who is of service to Aten.” He had six daughters‚ Merytaten‚ Meketaten‚ Ankhesenpaaten‚ Neferneferuaten-tasharit‚ Neferneferure‚ and Sotepenpre. Akhenaten was also suspected of having two more sons‚ Smenkhkare who succeeded him on the thrown‚ and Tutankhamun whom reigned after his brother. Both sons were born from different mothers. His first wife Neferiti‚ who was renamed to Nefernefruaten by the Pharaoh Akhenaten‚ which translated‚ means “beautiful is the beauty of Aten‚” was also known as the “great
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BRIEF HISTORY Queen Hatshepsut (the Foremost of Women) was the first great woman in recorded history: the forerunner of such figures as Cleopatra‚ Elisabeth I Tudor and Catherine the Great. The eldest daughter of King Tuthmosis and Queen Ahmose‚ she learned much of the art of ruling the country from her father with whom she had a special bond. She outlived her siblings and‚ after the death of her father‚ she became a queen of Egypt and ruled together with her half-brother-husband‚ Tuthmosis II
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Statue of Akhenaten Statues come in many different forms‚ sizes‚ styles‚ and reasons. After watching our online video and I saw a statue from “The New Kingdom” of the infamous Pharaoh Akhenaten. I was intrigued by the unusual features of this statue. They were unlike the traditional features on a statue I am accustomed to. My research was to find out a little more about this Pharaoh and why he was featured so radically different from the typical statues I was accustomed seeing from ancient times
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Week 2 Assignment 1 Student Name Professor Name Humanities 111 February 20‚ 2012 King Tutankhamen was born in 1341 BC. Tutankhamen is referred today as the Boy King or King Tut to many people around the world. King Tut’s tomb was essentially broken into long before it was discovered more than three thousand years later. “On November 4‚ 1922‚ workmen exposed the top step of a staircase which archaeologist Howard Carter followed to stumble on eleven stairs and a sealed door.” (the discovery)
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The Death of Tutankhamen Humanities 111 February 3‚ 2013 The death of King Tutankhamen has always been a mystery. Archeologists believed‚ King Tut‚ was murdered because there was damage to the skull. The assumption was‚ King Tut may have been killed in battle or assassinated. The mysterious death of King Tut has been confirmed by DNA analysis‚ that he died from Malaria. Malaria is a disease caused by infected mosquitoes and continues to be a problem today in Central and West Africa
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Little did we know‚ when we were sent on a field trip to the Ayala Museum‚ what we would see there. All that we were told was that it was an "educational field trip" and something to do with Filipiniana.net’s advocacy of anything and everything Filipino. So‚ we were really in for a treat when we set foot on the fourth floor of the museum and a short film started to play the moment we stepped inside the sliding doors. "Gold of Ancestors: Crossroads of Civilization"‚ it began‚ and went on to show some
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Humanities King Tutankhamen 1 Humanities King Tutankhamen Kate King Strayer University July 26‚ 2013 Humanities King Tutankhamen 2 Abstract The Egyptian Museum is the place where the mask of King Tutankhamen lives since his UN timely death at the age 18. When he was alive he lived
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Akhenaten was an 18th Dynasty Pharaoh. He was the proposed son of Amenhotep III and Tiye. Amenhotep wasn’t like normal people of Egypt‚ as he was portrayed to be deformed. . Queen Tiye who then chose Akhenaten to take the throne and he became Pharaoh. During his reign as Pharaoh‚ Akhenaten became very controversial. Akhenaten had changed centuries and dynasties of belief and religion and the way all Egyptians had been living Akhenaten also changed religion. He changed how they worship gods
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Ptolemy was a generous and a loving ruler. He was born on 62 BCE and he died 47 BCE. Ptolemy was married to Cleopatra VII‚ his older sister. He ruled during the Ptolemaic dynasty. During his ruling he went to war with Julius Caesar and his wife. He ruled over upper and lower egypt. He did not have any kids because he became pharaoh at age 9 and died at age 15 trying to flee the romans and drowned in the nile river. He had a lot of power on his little hands. He actually never got to make the big
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The comparison between the Head of Senusret III and Khafre is that they both ruled Egypt. Both sculptures where found in temple where their tombs were located. Also‚ their sculptures were use as The differences between the Head of Senusret III and Khafre is that they were made in different time periods. The first phot which is the Head of Senusret III was made during the Middle Kingdom and the photo‚ Khafre was made in the Old Kingdom. Even though Senusret III and Khafre were both pharaohs of Egypt
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