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Who was the Mysterious Queen Nefertiti? by Rob Mabry
In 1924, a bust of a beautiful woman was put on display at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. The bust depicts a woman with a long, slender neck and possessed of great beauty. In fact her name, âNefertiti,â means the âbeautiful one has come.â
Despite her vast beauty and the rise of her legend in modern times, details of Nefertitiâs life are scarce and were it not for the discovery of this exquisite bust, she may have faded from ancient history all together.
Queen Nefertiti was wife to the Pharaoh Akhenaten, ruler of Egypt around the time of 1350 B.C. It is believed that after his death, she may have ruled Egypt herself for a time. But history whispers that Nefertiti had many enemies, and that those enemies may have assisted in erasing both her life and her legacy.
What we do know of this elegant Egyptian queen comes mostly from the Aten Temple and an ongoing excavation at Amarna by the British Egypt Exploration Society. Some Egyptologists theorize that her nameâs meaning, âthe beautiful one has comeâ is evidence that she entered Egypt from a foreign land. Others believe she may have descended from royal blood. There is also a contingent of scholars that believe she was daughter to Ay, a powerful political figure, who became Pharaoh after the death of King Tut. A death in which they suspect he may have played a hand.
While details of her life before marriage are scant, her rise to power along with her husband, the Pharaoh Akhenaten, provides some insight into the mysterious queen. Their elevation of Aten, the sun disc god, as the âtrue godâ proved controversial and many believe this monotheistic direction was plotted by Queen Nefertiti herself. This practice did not sit well with the Egyptian priesthood and surely garnered the ruling couple an army of powerful enemies.
Questions still shroud the life and death of this controversial and enigmatic queen of the Nile. Her name and history were erased from historical records and statues and busts that bore her likeness destroyed as Egypt returned to polytheism. Only traces of the intriguing story of her past remain. The cause of her death too remains a mystery. With so many powerful enemies in the priesthood, she may well have succumbed to the perils of her own ambition.
With so little historical evidence, we are left mostly with speculation and conjecture that draw an incomplete picture of an intriguing historical figure. Anyone who has the good fortune to visit the Egyptian Museum in Berlin and see the bust of this exquisite Egyptian queen will wonder at her beauty and wonder even more about her life as a queen of the Nile.
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Rob Mabry is a former Army journalist, author of numerous screenplays and partner/owner of
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How did they decide who was to be King or Queen in the beginning?
You read that they are King/Queen by family heritage/lineage. Well, who originally decided who was to be King/Queen?
Did they just elect someone One Day and they declared themselves King?
I'm talking about the very first descendents of this lineage or line up over the ages.
Modern kingship extends back to William the First (aka William The Conqueror) who invaded Britain and killed the Saxon king Harold at the Battle of Hastings in the most memorable date in history, 1066 (and all that).
Prior to that there were kings of various local regions eg Wessex - mainly warrior chiefs who beat up the others until he was crowned king and who had scraps with invading Romans Saxons, Celts, Danes etc. Only after the Norman conquest did things get organised into the kingdom we would recognise today - when the country was unified and the capital of England was at Winchester.
From William lines then continued by Royal houses until they fizzled out - Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, Saxe-Coburg Gotha Battenberg (better known as Windsor).
Most of the changes in houses happened peaceably eg James I inherited the throne of England because Elizabeth I had no heirs. The Tudors fought the Lancastrians for it in the Wars of the Roses - which sounds like a rather charming flower fight, but was in fact one of the bloodiest periods in British history. after the stuarts a distant connection with the German royal family led to the succession of George I (who could not speak English) which accounts for the (embarrassing at times) ancestry of the present royals.
