The powerful Queen Nefertiti of ancient Egypt, the most beautiful woman in history and the mysterious disappearance

Talking about history, Egypt is one of the countries with the oldest civilization in the world. In it, the beautiful and powerful queens are huge contributors to the world history cycle. The most prominent, perhaps, not to mention the most powerful and beautiful queen in Egyptian history - Queen Nefertiti.

Nefertiri was the eldest wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. She was the one with her husband to carry out a religious revolution, when they worshiped only one god, Athens. Nefertiri is known around the world for its 3300-year-old statue of Queen Nefertiti.

Goddess of beauty

Nefertiti was one of the most beautiful women in Egyptian history, perhaps because her name means "Beauty to Earth". The stunning queen was the wife of Akhenaten - one of the most eccentric pharaohs in ancient Egypt. She became known in 1912 through a painted limestone bust among the ruins of the Akhetaten period.

Legend has it that if the sun god had seen her historically famous striptease, an important part of her daily routine, he would have treated her Egyptian subjects more favorably. And that became Nefertari's mission. The queen's one-day "work" schedule always begins with a dance for the Sun God. With her beauty, this is the noble mission assigned to Queen Nefertiti. The Egyptians believed that, if the Sun God was ecstatic at the queen's delicate dance, he would surely treat the people here with kindness.

Nefertiti was also a person of special power during the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt. During the reign of King Akhenaten, the father of King Tutankhamun (1353-1336 BC), Nefertiti was a very important person politically and religiously. She acts as a co-reigner. The image of Nefertiti always accompanies her husband in the ritual rituals, which is depicted through the statues, murals, and reliefs carved with the couple.

Historical records do not mention that there was a son between Nefertiti and Akhenaten. But they had six daughters: Meritaten, Meketaten, Ankhesenpaaten, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure, and Setepenre. It is possible that one of Akhenaten's concubines was the mother of King Tutankhamun, Akhenaten's successor.

Some Egyptologists also believe that after King Akhenaten died, Nefertiti ruled in place of her husband before giving power to Tutankhamun. Therefore, many reliefs show Nefertiti wearing the Pharaoh's crown or participating in a decisive battle with the enemy.

"Nefertiti is considered the Cleopatra of her time. Not only possessing great beauty and wealth, she is also an extremely powerful woman," said Michelle Moran, author of "Nefertiti", a novel The famous history of this queen tells.

The Most Powerful Queen of Ancient Egypt

Because he was so fascinated by the beauty of Queen Nefertari, King Akhenaten did not care about the main court, just wanted to admire and own "Beauty of the Nile". The king gave all power to Queen Nefertiti to hold. Based on the available power, the queen established a new type of religion to honor the god Aten, also known as the sun god, the highest of all gods.

This angered and angered the monks who worshiped the god Amun. They went to King Akhenaten, begging him to rethink and withdraw the new religious law. At that time, Akhenaten obeyed his queen, closed their temples, closed their worship and held long-standing religious ceremonies. Also from here, Akhenaten's reign began to decline, King Akhenaten was no longer popular during his later rule.

Fearing assassination, King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertari took all the valuables from the closed temples, built a magnificent, magnificent new city, named Amarna. The new city was closely guarded by an elite army of the royal family. Here, Akhenaten and Nefertiti lived in happiness and wealth, leaving the people hungry and crying.

As the queen herself, Nefertari had to give the king a prince to inherit the throne, but during the 12 years of marriage, she gave birth to all 6 children, all of them girls. This disappointed King Akhenaten and sought another wife named Kiya. And this wife gave birth to King Akhenaten a prince named Tutankhamun and later the most famous pharaoh of Egypt: King Tut.

In 1336 BC, King Akhenaten died, by which time the Akhenaten dynasty was in decline. Queen Nefertiti ascended the throne, co-regent with her successor, and from here on, her power was stronger than ever. Nefertiti became the pharaoh Neferneferuaten, which means "Beautiful Woman of Aten's Aura". Egypt is completely in the hands of the beauty queen Nefertari.

In the early days of her rule, in order to make up for what King Akhenaten had caused, Queen Nefertari introduced a regulation, allowing the Egyptians to worship other gods as before, but it was too late. Many enemies are always trying to bring her down and try to assassinate the powerful queen who wants to rule this country.

Also at this time, the queen of Egypt mysteriously disappeared. Many historians hypothesize that the queen, her daughter and son-in-law left the palace to live in a remote village or maybe she was assassinated on the way. And the queen's mummy answered all the questions posed by historians.

When archaeologists found the queen's mummy, they were surprised to realize that it was a mummified body full of injuries and deformities with cuts to the chest, neck, arms and legs. The mummy's feet were dismembered, her right arm was torn, and her chest and neck were slashed with a blunt weapon, along with a stab wound to her left breast. The left arm was also broken, it seems that the owner had to defend himself against a sharp blade. The research team determined that the queen was revenged by the polytheists.

A rumor persists to this day, spreading among the Egyptian people. The queen cast a spell on her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, to hold true power behind the throne. She is ready to use all the cruelest means to eliminate the women who are her love enemies. It is said that she murdered Kiya, another wife of King Akhenaten for giving birth to a prince, which she was unable to do. This made her lose the trust of the king and the people in her.

Today, Queen Nefertari still has the power to attract the eye. Her famous bust was found in Egypt in 1912 and is on display at the Berlin museum (Germany). The statue is a lovely face, with a unique crown on its head, an elongated neck, proudly raised, and a mysterious smile on its crimson lips.

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