Queen Ahmose Nefertari is among the royal mummies that were displayed in the Royal Mummies Hall of the National Museum of Civilization, today, among the 22 kings and queens that were transferred from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, in a majestic procession witnessed by the whole world, and during the next lines we review the story of the queen that is displayed for the first time next to her coffin In front of the audience.
Queen Ahmose-Nefertari was the first queen of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and the modern state, the third golden period in the history of ancient Egypt, and she was the daughter of King Saqnen Ra Taa II and his wife Aahhotep the First, and she married the heroic king, the liberator of Egypt from the Hyksos, Ahmose the First.
The book "Queens of the Pharaohs .. Drama of Love and Power" stated that Queen Ahmose-Nefertari gave birth to four sons and five daughters, five of whom died young, and after the death of Ahmose the First, she took custody of her young son, King Amenhotep the First, and upon the death of his wife, Queen Meret Amun (not The famous daughter of Ramses II), the Queen Mother played the role of his eldest wife to support her son, who died without an heir to the throne, and she played an important role in choosing a successor to her son, King Thutmose I, who died during his reign.
And Dr. Hussein Abdel-Basir added, Queen Ahmose-Nefertari was a great queen in every sense of the word, as a wife, mother, goddess and guardian of the throne and directed to choose the new ruler of Egypt after the departure of her son without an heir, so she merely entered into the record of the immortals of the great queens of Egypt, which are considered the best. Ancient Egypt to the world are many, and countless.
The book "Queens of the Pharaohs ... Drama of Love and Power" indicated that it is likely that Queen Ahmose was perhaps the daughter of King Amenhotep the First, or the daughter of his father, King Ahmose the First and his eldest wife, Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, and in this case Queen Ahmose would be the sister of King Amenhotep The first, and this proposition is somewhat acceptable to us, given that King Tuthmosis the First, an immigrant to the rule of Egypt from a non-royal origin and who did not belong to the family of King Ahmose the First and his son Amenhotep the First, had to find a connection with the previous owner house until He derives his legitimacy and entitlement to rule Egypt by marrying a princess from the royal house, and I mean his wife, Queen Ahmose, who had in her name evidence of her association with the royal house founded by King Ahmose Al-Aww. The king's daughter, "whom she would have carried if she had been of royal blood."
Perhaps she was a sister or half-sister to her husband, King Tuthmosis the First, and marriage between brother and sister was not common in ancient Egypt except between members of the royal house at that time in order to preserve the succession of the line of Egyptian kings from the same family on the throne of Egypt, and this marriage may have occurred between Brother Thutmose and Sister Ahmose after Thutmose (the first) became the heir to the throne of King Amenhotep the First.
The book "Queens of the Pharaohs .. Drama of Love and Power" pointed out that the most important outcome of this blessed marriage was the birth of two daughters, Nefrobiti "Akhbet Nefro" and Hatshepsut, whose fame applied horizons around the world.
Queen Ahmose remains in the background of the events during the reign of her husband, King Tuthmosis the First, but she jumps to the forefront of events during the reign of her daughter, Queen Pharaoh, Hatshepsut, who wove an interesting story in which she claimed that the god Amun tied with her mother Queen Ahmose intercourse with husbands and gave birth to the child Hatshepsut from her Hatshepsut created this political propaganda, or what is known to us as "the story of the divine birth," and documented it on the walls of the monastery's temple in order to gain her legitimacy in ruling the country as a woman with a kind of holiness and wants to consolidate her rule in the eyes of the people by claiming that she is a descendant of the gods.
After the death of Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, she was sanctified with her son, King Amenhotep the First, as they were the protectors of the Theban Necropolis, and was buried in the Draa Abu al-Naja area on the western mainland of Luxor, and the queen's mummy was found in a large coffin with the mummy of King Ramses III in the cache of the Deir el-Bahari. Her mummy, we know that she died at about seventy years of age, and that her right hand was stolen by ancient thieves to obtain her jewelry.
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