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An image of wall paintings in the Green Room just after excavation. What is shown here inspired a facsimile (below) but no longer survives in its original form.
It’s easy to envision why the princess Meritaten, eldest daughter of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten and his great royal wife, Nefertiti, and keeper of the royal household, would have needed a refuge during one of the most tumultuous periods in Egyptian history. Her father, originally known as Amenhotep IV, instigated a revolutio
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