Meritaten Essays

Vital Statistics: This source is a text written to modern day people giving information about Queen Nefetari’s tomb. This text was published November 18, 1996 by John K. McDonald. Even though McDonald wrote this source he was not the one that discovered the Queen’s tomb the Egyptologist whom discovered the tomb was Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1904. Summary: In this text it talks about how Queen Nefertari was “born noble, but not royal (McDonald, 1996, p.15)”. She married royalty in had the same power

12 years and was queen in the 14th century BC. She was born in Thebes, Egypt and she is said to have died around 1331 BC. She was born around 1370 BC. Nefertiti had six children, all of those children were girls. They were called Ankhesenamun, Meritaten, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Meketaten and Sepepenre. Nefertiti was 15 years old when she got married to Pharaoh Akhenaten. Queen Nefertiti was a great influence over her husband and she helped Akhenaten change the religion of Egypt to monotheism

queen Kiya. Akhenaten had two sons with queen kiya, Tutankhamun (The world’s most famous Egyptian pharaoh) and smenkhare. Then he married queen Nefertiti and had six daughters, ankhsenamun, meketaton, ankhenspaaten, neferneferure ,setepenre, and meritaten

Akhenaten had a very interesting and surprising life. He had many strengths and weaknesses, and very interesting biographical information. He also had many great accomplishments in his life. Akhenaten’s biographical information is the most interesting pharaoh and he had the most interesting family out of all the pharaoh’s there ever was. Akhenaten’s wife was the famous queen Nefertiti, and it is said that his son was the most famous pharaoh but not a pharaoh with lots of accomplishments named King

Akhenanten IV was the son of Amenhotep III and his queen Tiye. Akhenaten came to power in the 1353 BCE and reign in the eighteenth dynasty. Akhenaten was crowned Amenhotep IV and was left behind with a prosperous land. Akhenaten ruled Egypt in a way it had never been ruled before. He transformed centuries of polytheism into monotheism, relocated the capital of Egypt, and “created” a new style of art. Akhenaten mad many wives during his reign. The first and most well-known wife of Akhenaten was Nefertiti