“The Younger Lady” is the title given to the mother of King Tut whose mummified body was discovered in 1898 in the Valley of the King’s in Egypt in the tomb KV35 by archaeologist, Victor Loret. The mummified corpse was found naked and damaged (due to tomb robbers) alongside two other bodies – one of [read more]
The first queen of Egypt in modern times, Nazli Sabri, was by all accounts an exceptional character with an exceptional destiny. If one looks at her life’s story, it is impossible to not experience a mix of feelings: admiration, appreciation, disagreement, wonder… Queen Nazli was a complex figure and a tragic character, a woman who was [read more]
(Not to be confused with Queen Tiye – The Elder Lady) Ramesses III’s reign consisted of a group of problems. There were threats of foreign invasions and bad harvests. This led to food shortages and civil unrest.[1] However, he also had a large harem and produced ten sons. This was to be his greatest headache and [read more]
History is full of strange twists of fate, but the case of Narriman Sadek is an exceptional one. Her life was marked by short-lived periods of apparent happiness and long periods of oblivion and sadness. And it always seemed that destiny…external circumstances and other people decided the road of her life. It all started in [read more]
Queen Tiye was born in c. 1398 BC as the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Yuya and noblewoman, Thuya. She is known, for sure, to at least have one brother Anen. It is believed by many that she had another brother by the name of Ay. She would go on to be the mother of King Akhenaten, which [read more]
Cleopatra Selene is the forgotten daughter of the infamous Cleopatra VII. She was an Egyptian princess and was proclaimed by Marc Antony as Queen of Cyrenaica and Libya. After the death of her mother, Cleopatra, she reigned as queen of Egypt alongside her brother, Alexander Helios, for two weeks before it was annexed by the [read more]
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