| Tutankhamen never won a great battle and never | | | | played and went to school most of the time. Then |
| built a colossal monument yet this Egyptian King is | | | | one morning at age 13 she was informed that her |
| the best known today. He died in 1340 B.C. but his | | | | uncle had died and that she and her boy friend |
| name will not be forgotten. This is almost as | | | | Tutankhaton, now age ten, had to get married. In a |
| accidental as the discovery of his tomb. | | | | few days the boy would suddenly become the |
| Egypt in the days of the young boy was a rich | | | | Pharaoh of Egypt and his name had changed to |
| country and their life depended on the flooding of | | | | Tutankhamen. At age ten with his wife age 13, her |
| the Nile. In order to prepare for the flood they | | | | name now Ankhesnamen had all the power. And |
| studied the river and the stars. They became the | | | | when they wanted to play, Ay, the old courtier was |
| primitive worlds most successful astronomers. Then | | | | there to help out. He stayed in the palace and was |
| Akhenaton decided to change the way they believed | | | | there when documents were signed. The young |
| and as a visionary ordered his followers to pray to | | | | pharaoh and his queen grew seemed to live happily |
| one god only, Amon-Re. He made his home at Tell el | | | | when six years later, the pharaoh, still a boy at 17, |
| Amarna and here he lived with Queen Nefertiti and | | | | was dead. |
| his daughters. The worship of the new god brought | | | | Tragically the young queen found herself without a |
| happiness to all it seemed. | | | | husband. Then, as more ironic events unfolded, at |
| In the capital a boy was born. Tutankhaton whose | | | | age 20, she suddenly found herself with nothing but |
| name would later change. Back in the palace there | | | | a wreath of spring flowers in her hand and a mummy |
| were only girls and since the Pharaoh was more | | | | in an open sarcophagus. She placed the wreath on his |
| concerned worshipping the Aton than managing the | | | | forehead, turned, walked up the steps and out of |
| country, the country was slipping into economic | | | | history as her plan to marry quickly was derailed. The |
| chaos. His brother married his daughter Merytamen | | | | Hittite prince, on his way to rescue her was |
| and helped rule the country. Nefertiti took up | | | | murdered. Like her mother, father, uncle, sister and |
| residence in her own palace and soon the heretic | | | | husband, her entry on the world stage was brief. Ay |
| Akhenaton died. | | | | mounted the throne and history would always |
| The situation was that at least Smenkhkare rules | | | | wonder if it was with a great deal of blood on his |
| part of Egypt while the young princess Ankhesnamen | | | | hands. |