SHARE:
Relief showing Nefertiti kissing her daughter Meritaten(HIP/Art Resource, NY)
When the pharaoh Akhenaten died, he left no obvious successor. Three of his and his wife Nefertiti’s six daughters had died, and his son, Tutankhaten (later Tutankhamun) was too young to be king. Who would rule Egypt and bring peace back to a land rent by the religious revolution led by Akhenaten? For present-day scholars, too, the answer is far less than evident. The chronology of deaths and inheritors to the thr
Become a Digital Subscriber Today
Get full access to all content on the ARCHAEOLOGY website and our PDF archive going back to the first publication in March 1948.
Already a Subscriber? Sign In
