King Tut's Daddy Identified...

[Dover]

An inscribed limestone block might have solved one of history's greatest mysteries — who fathered the boy pharaoh King Tut.

"We can now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News.

The finding offers evidence against another leading theory that King Tut was sired by the minor king Smenkhkare.

Hawass discovered the missing part of a broken limestone block a few months ago in a storeroom at el Ashmunein, a village on the west bank of the Nile some 150 miles south of Cairo.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28279258/




Akhenaten - see the resemblence?



Akhenaten (often also spelled Echnaton, Akhnaton, or rarely Ikhnaton) (In English, IPA: <ˌɑkəˡnɑtən> his royal name Amenhotep in English is IPA: <ˌɑmənˈhotɛp> meaning Effective spirit of Aton, first known as Amenhotep IV (sometimes read as Amenophis IV and meaning Amun is Satisfied) before the first year of his reign), was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, who died 1336 BC or 1334 BC.

He is especially noted for attempting to compel the Egyptian population in the monotheistic worship of Aten, although there are doubts as to how successful he was at this. He was born to Amenhotep III and his Chief Queen Tiye and was their younger son. Akhenaten was not originally designated as the successor to the throne until the untimely death of his older brother, the Crown Prince Thutmose.

Amenhotep IV succeeded his father after Amenhotep III's death at the end of his 38-year reign, possibly after a short coregency lasting between either 1 to 2 years. Suggested dates for Akhenaton's reign (subject to the debates surrounding Egyptian chronology) are from 1353 BC-1336 BC or 1351 BC–1334 BC. Akhenaten's chief wife was Nefertiti, made world-famous by the discovery of her exquisitely moulded and painted bust, now displayed in the Altes Museum of Berlin, and among the most recognised works of art surviving from the ancient world.

After his death and the restoration of traditional religious practice, he and his immediate successors were ignored and excised from history by later rulers. Akhenaten himself is usually referred to as 'the enemy'...cont'd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

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The "Heretic Pharaoh"
http://www.egyptologyonline.com/akhenaten1.htm

More about Akhenaton:
http://www.kingtutone.com/akhenaten/

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Born in Arizona, moved to Babylona...

[crim son]

2. Heh.

It's been a while.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. ...got a condo made of ston-ah!

:rofl:

[Ian David]

5. McCain Tutt? n/t

[Dennis Donovan]

7. They're the same age...

eh... too easy.;)

[antinano]

3. So he's black?

Next

[xchrom]

6. fascinating -- love it. nt

[Dover]

8. Akhenaten

Akhenaten - see the resemblence?



Akhenaten (often also spelled Echnaton, Akhnaton, or rarely Ikhnaton) (In English, IPA: <ˌɑkəˡnɑtən> his royal name Amenhotep in English is IPA: <ˌɑmənˈhotɛp> meaning Effective spirit of Aton, first known as Amenhotep IV (sometimes read as Amenophis IV and meaning Amun is Satisfied) before the first year of his reign), was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, who died 1336 BC or 1334 BC.

He is especially noted for attempting to compel the Egyptian population in the monotheistic worship of Aten, although there are doubts as to how successful he was at this. He was born to Amenhotep III and his Chief Queen Tiye and was their younger son. Akhenaten was not originally designated as the successor to the throne until the untimely death of his older brother, the Crown Prince Thutmose.

Amenhotep IV succeeded his father after Amenhotep III's death at the end of his 38-year reign, possibly after a short coregency lasting between either 1 to 2 years. Suggested dates for Akhenaton's reign (subject to the debates surrounding Egyptian chronology) are from 1353 BC-1336 BC or 1351 BC–1334 BC. Akhenaten's chief wife was Nefertiti, made world-famous by the discovery of her exquisitely moulded and painted bust, now displayed in the Altes Museum of Berlin, and among the most recognised works of art surviving from the ancient world.

After his death and the restoration of traditional religious practice, he and his immediate successors were ignored and excised from history by later rulers. Akhenaten himself is usually referred to as 'the enemy'...cont'd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

----

The "Heretic Pharaoh"
http://www.egyptologyonline.com/akhenaten1.htm

More about Akhenaton:
http://www.kingtutone.com/akhenaten/