Nile Magazine

I have recently started buying the glossy Nile magazine.  A must have for anyone interested in Ancient Egypt.

It's a cross between an academic journal and fanzine and has many wonderful colour pictures of artefacts.  Articles are written by Egyptologists and it also welcomes articles by laypersons too.

Tutankhamun tomb really belongs to Nefertiti?
In issue 15 there is a fascinating article about the meaning of wall paintings in Tutankhamun tomb. -(and a modern interpretation as Nefertit's Union with Akhenaten.) The article claims that the tomb was originally intended for Nefertiti.  Of course her tomb hasn't been discovered yet. 

The following is from an article published by Guardian newspaper in 2015 about the paintings:
"But the murals also hold hints of Nefertiti, Reeves wrote. He argued that one image does not show Tutankhamun but rather Nefertiti. The figure has the “somewhat scooped brow and nose and a straight jawline with gently rounded chin” that appears in her portraits, according to Reeves. He also wrote that he believes about 80% of the burial equipment in Tutankhamun’s tomb was made for someone else.

 

Nefertiti died about seven years before Tutankhamen and loomed large over her era of Egyptian history. She supported her husband’s (Akenaten) conversion of Egypt, presided over a period of striking art – some of its most famous works are sculptures of her –and may have ruled the kingdom alone in the years after Akhenaten’s death.
Reeves subscribes to the theory that Nefertiti ruled as her husband’s successor – but as Smenkhkare, the name of an enigmatic pharaoh who briefly ruled after Akhenaten.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/nov/08/king-tut-tomb-infrared-scans-queen-Nefertiti

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