Ankhesepaten & the Hittites

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Message: Ankhesepaten & the Hittites
Author: - Ankhesepaten Amenhotep 
Date: Sep 9, 2000 10:27
      It was my namesake Ankhesenamun, (who was known as Ankesepaten in the 
      times of the heretic Akhenaten), who contacted the Hittites after her 
      husband Tutankhamun died.  She wrote to Shubbiluliuma, King of the 
      Hittites, asking him to send a husband.  We have Hittite records from the 
      time, written by Shubbiluliuma's son, Mursil II.  It was such an unusual 
      occurrence, the Hittites suspected trickery. 
      Ankhesenamun wrote "My husband is dead and I have no sons.  People say you 
      have many sons.  If you send me one of your sons, he will become my 
      husband, for it is repugnant to me to take one of my servants as husband." 

      We believe perhaps that the "repugnant servant" may have been the commoner 
      & future dictator Horemheb. 
      The Hittite Prince Zannanza set out for Egypt, but was murdered by 
      Horemheb, this leading to a state of war between the two nations. 
      We know that Ankhesenamun ruled beside the elderly priest Ay for a time, 
      but of her ultimate fate, nothing... 










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