Hidden hieroglyphics indicate Egyptian boy monarch buried stepmom years earlier in adjacent chamber
(Image by Silvano from Pixabay)
(Image by Silvano from Pixabay)
Legendary beauty Nefertiti was wife and queen to King Akhenaten. She died in 1330 BCE.
Akhenaten’s son Tutankhamun became king at the age of 10 but died just nine years later in 1324 BCE. DNA testing on ancient remains has shown that Tutankhamun’s mother was another woman found in the tomb of Amenhotep II, making Nefertiti his stepmother.
Nicholas Reeves, a former curator in the British Museum’s Department of Egyptian Antiquities, told the UK Guardian newspaper in a Monday report that Tutankhamun’s unexpected death at an early age meant there was a need to quickly find a place to bury him.
He suggests the Egyptians chose an antechamber to a much larger tomb “prepared for and still occupied by” Nefertiti.