Egypt
To Tiye Lady of Egypt
Thus speaks Tushratta King of the Mitanni
Approximately 1350 bc
All is well with me.
May all be well with you.
May all go well in your house, for your son, may all be perfectly well for your soldiers and for all belonging to you.
You are the one who knows that I have felt friendship for your husband, that your husband had felt friendship for me.
The things that I wrote and told your husband and things that your husband told me, were known to you. But it is to you who knows better than anyone, the things we have told each other. No one knows better than you.
You should continue sending joyous envoys, one after another. Do not stop them coming.
I shall not forget the friendship with your husband. This friendship is ten fold for your son.
You are the one who knows the words of your husband, but still I have not received your gift of homage which your husband ordered. I have asked your husband for colossal gold statues but your son sent me statues of gilded wood. As gold is like dust in your sons country, why have their been reason for such pain's that your son not to have given to me.
Neither has he given what his father gave to me?
AUTHORS NOTE: This letter was found at the Queen's son's capital and may well have never been read or responded to by the Queen mother who visited her son's capital perhaps maybe only once.
The Queen mother probably lived out her golden years at her palace at Malquatta near Thebe's.
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Egypt
A letter form the King of Mitanni to the Queen Mother of Egypt
To Tiye Lady of Egypt
Thus speaks Tushratta King of the Mitanni
Approximately 1350 bc
All is well with me.
May all be well with you.
May all go well in your house, for your son, may all be perfectly well for your soldiers and for all belonging to you.
You are the one who knows that I have felt friendship for your husband, that your husband had felt friendship for me.
The things that I wrote and told your husband and things that your husband told me, were known to you. But it is to you who knows better than anyone, the things we have told each other. No one knows better than you.
You should continue sending joyous envoys, one after another. Do not stop them coming.
I shall not forget the friendship with your husband. This friendship is ten fold for your son.
You are the one who knows the words of your husband, but still I have not received your gift of homage which your husband ordered. I have asked your husband for colossal gold statues but your son sent me statues of gilded wood. As gold is like dust in your sons country, why have their been reason for such pain's that your son not to have given to me.
Neither has he given what his father gave to me?
AUTHORS NOTE: This letter was found at the Queen's son's capital and may well have never been read or responded to by the Queen mother who visited her son's capital perhaps maybe only once.
The Queen mother probably lived out her golden years at her palace at Malquatta near Thebe's.
- More Re Discovery Of Tomb Of Queen Behenu
Reuters The well-known necropolis of Saqqara, 30 km (20 miles) south of Cairo, served the nearby city of Memphis and was scoured in ancient times by thieves. The 5th Dynasty is generally understood to have lasted from 2465 to 2323 BC, while the 6th Dynasty...
- New Book: Amarna Sunset
American University in Cairo Press Amarna Sunset. Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation Aidan Dodson This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten’s...
- Mystery Of The Mummy From Kv55
Guardians.net Thanks to Huib Benne for sending me the link to this page. It is Zahi Hawass's take on this particular issue, with some detailed background information about the Amarna period and a description of some of the key contents of KV55. The...
- Statue Of Queen Ti Discovered
http://tinyurl.com/btf4g (Al Jazeera) "A US archaeological team has unearthed a statue of Queen Ti, one of the most important women in ancient Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says. The statue, mostly...
- The King's Wife Tiye
Here are pictures of the recently found statue from the mortuary temple of Tiye's husband Amenhotep III. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/photogalleries/Egypt-pictures/index.html...