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Nefertiti Research Paper

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For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten originally known as Amenhotep IV, was an influential woman in the Bronze Age. Her image and name were renowned throughout Upper and Lower Egypt. Suddenly, after the end of the reign of Akhenaten, Nefertiti disappeared from the royal family, vanishing so completely that it was as if she had never been. No known record survives to detail her death; no found monument serves to represent the mourning of her death. To this day her expiration remains a conundrum.
She was the beloved wife of "heretic king" Akhenaten, who defied customs by practicing monotheism and by elevating Nefertiti far above the role of subservient consort. Her image has enraptured viewers ever since a limestone bust unearthed in modern day Amarna went on display in Berlin in 1924. But few facts are proven about this woman. As Akhenaten dismissed the plethora of old gods, distressing many of his subjects, he had a strong female figure in Nefertiti to ease the supernatural rigorousness of Aten, the sun deity. His chief consort’s semblance was celebrated in official art and …show more content…

Her name means “the beautiful one has come.” Her origins and much about her life are unclear. Her alleged mother or stepmother, Tiy, was also described as her nurse and governess. Her presumed father was Ay, as a scribe and keeper of the king’s, Amenhotep III, records.
Perhaps his standing made it possible for Nefertiti to secure an entrance to the court and to become friendly with the king’s eldest son, Amenhotep IV. Taking into consideration her father’s advanced aspirations, at age eleven Nefertiti already appeared to have been groomed to be queen. It is recognized that she lived her earlier years in the palace at Thebes. After the young King Amenhotep IV ascended the throne at about age fourteen on his father’s death, he married

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