[UA] Akhenaten

[Mark Baker]

Timothy Ferguson <ferguson at beyond.net.au> writes
> Um, correction - we -do- have Akhenaton's body.  I saw pictures of it
> on television on one of our religious documentary programs, about an
> English archaeologist wanting to dig in Al-Armarja.
>
Tell el-Amarna unless we're into the territory of a crossover with "Over
the Edge".

> The theory on Compass was that Smenkekarre - his co-regent- might have
> been his wife.  We know Neferititi changed her name at least twice
> anyway, so what is one more?
>
Akhenaten itself was a second name, the pharaoh was originally called
Amenhotep like his father.
But iirc Smenkare's tomb was found in the Valley of the Kings in the
early 20's, and the body inside was definitely that of a man killed by a
blow to the back of the head. The images of Nefertiti that we have are
definitely those of a woman, and she managed to give Akhenaten a number
of children (six?).
Which raises some interesting possibilities about an Avatar of the
Mystic Hermaphrodite.

-- 
Mark Baker
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