Egypt
Yuya and Tuya were the parents of Queen Tiy, Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III - same Dynasty as Tutankhamun, different generation. I am sure that everyone has the various possibilities of Tutankhamun's family tree sorted out by now, but just in case any visitors don't have the story, here's a VERY rough summary. Amenhotep III married Queen Tiy, whose parents were non-royal personages Yuya and Tuya, but who were buried in the Valley of the Kings (an extraordinary honour). An offspring of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III was Amenhotep IV who later changed his name to Akhenaten, married Nefertiti, and had several female children with her. Tutankhamun is thought to have been a son of Akhenaten, but it is not clear who his mother was - although a popular theory is that his mother was Kiya, a secondary wife of Akhenaten. So Yuya and Tuya would have been the great grandparents of Tutankhamun.
These are pretty poor. Never mind - the thought was there!
Apologies that the photos are so furry!
- Hawass On Kv64, Pyramids And Other Hopes For 2011
You Tube Thanks to Kate Phizackerley's News from the Valley of the Kings blog for this link. Rossella Lorenzi (Discovery News) interviews Zahi Hawass about excavation work being carried out at the moment and his hopes for 2011. The sound quality is...
- Gilded Coffin And Funerary Mask Of Tjuya
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) With photos. Yuya and Tjuya were the parents of Queen Tiye, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (r. 1390-1353 B.C.) and the grandmother of Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1323 B.C.). Commoners of high social rank from...
- Yet Another Colossal Statue Of Amenhotep Iii
Here we find an image of a rather unimpressive looking monument of Amenhotep III, I suspect it was not reused for a reason, though confusingly the article refers to Amenhotep III as Tutankhamun's great grandfather. This statement is questionable as...
- The Mummy Of Queen Tiye
The Kings Wife Tiye was wife of King Amenhotep III ca 1350bc and the mother of Amenhotep IV, the heretic Akhenaten. She and Amenhotep historically were probably only children when married and if the record is accurate she probably outlived her husband...
- After Nefertiti
With the recent release of the data from the DNA and CT scanning of the eighteenth dynasty mummies in particular the mummies believed related to king Tutankhamen some new questions have been raised. The results show that the Kv55 man found in a coffin...
Egypt
Daily Photo - Tutankhamun
As nearly all of today's posts feature Tutankhamun, I felt obliged to make today's Daily Photograph relevant to the boy king. However, when I last took photographs at the Cairo museum I didn't have a good enough camera for the job, so I decided not to mangle my memories of the collection with third rate photographs and bought the book instead, with excellent photographs by Araldo De Luca. Instead, I took third rate photographs of just about everything else in the museum. These are the closest that I could get to Tutankhamun from my photographic collection - the burial of Yuya and Tuya.
Yuya and Tuya were the parents of Queen Tiy, Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III - same Dynasty as Tutankhamun, different generation. I am sure that everyone has the various possibilities of Tutankhamun's family tree sorted out by now, but just in case any visitors don't have the story, here's a VERY rough summary. Amenhotep III married Queen Tiy, whose parents were non-royal personages Yuya and Tuya, but who were buried in the Valley of the Kings (an extraordinary honour). An offspring of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III was Amenhotep IV who later changed his name to Akhenaten, married Nefertiti, and had several female children with her. Tutankhamun is thought to have been a son of Akhenaten, but it is not clear who his mother was - although a popular theory is that his mother was Kiya, a secondary wife of Akhenaten. So Yuya and Tuya would have been the great grandparents of Tutankhamun.
These are pretty poor. Never mind - the thought was there!
- Hawass On Kv64, Pyramids And Other Hopes For 2011
You Tube Thanks to Kate Phizackerley's News from the Valley of the Kings blog for this link. Rossella Lorenzi (Discovery News) interviews Zahi Hawass about excavation work being carried out at the moment and his hopes for 2011. The sound quality is...
- Gilded Coffin And Funerary Mask Of Tjuya
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) With photos. Yuya and Tjuya were the parents of Queen Tiye, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (r. 1390-1353 B.C.) and the grandmother of Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1323 B.C.). Commoners of high social rank from...
- Yet Another Colossal Statue Of Amenhotep Iii
Here we find an image of a rather unimpressive looking monument of Amenhotep III, I suspect it was not reused for a reason, though confusingly the article refers to Amenhotep III as Tutankhamun's great grandfather. This statement is questionable as...
- The Mummy Of Queen Tiye
The Kings Wife Tiye was wife of King Amenhotep III ca 1350bc and the mother of Amenhotep IV, the heretic Akhenaten. She and Amenhotep historically were probably only children when married and if the record is accurate she probably outlived her husband...
- After Nefertiti
With the recent release of the data from the DNA and CT scanning of the eighteenth dynasty mummies in particular the mummies believed related to king Tutankhamen some new questions have been raised. The results show that the Kv55 man found in a coffin...