Great women had a prominent role in the making of ancient Egyptian history, and in conjunction with the International Women’s Day, which is celebrated today, March 8 of each year, we review examples of women who armed with will and left behind clear fingerprints recorded in letters of gold in history books, and among those models Queen Ahmose-Nefertari.
Queen Ahmose - Nefertari is the first queen of the eighteenth dynasty, and the modern state, the third golden period in the history of ancient Egypt. She was the daughter of King Seqenen Ra Taa II and his wife Iah Hotep I. She married the heroic king, the liberator of Egypt from the Hyksos, Ahmose I.
The book "Queens of the Pharaohs: The Drama of Love and Power" stated that Queen Ahmose-Nefertari gave birth to four sons and five daughters, five of whom died young. The famous daughter of Ramses II), the Queen Mother played the role of his eldest wife in order to support her son, who died without an heir to the throne, and played an important role in choosing the successor of her son, King Thutmose I, who died during his reign.
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. Ancient Egypt on 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 a daughter of King Amenhotep I, or a daughter of his father, King Ahmose I and his eldest wife, Queen Ahmose - Nefertari. In this case, Queen Ahmose is a full-sister to King Amenhotep The first, and this proposition is somewhat acceptable to us, given that King Thutmose I, who came to rule Egypt of non-royal origin and who did not belong to the family of King Ahmose I and his son Amenhotep I, had to find a connection with the previous owner’s 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, whose name indicates her connection to the royal house founded by King Ahmose or, however, it is noticeable that Queen Ahmose bore the title “King’s Sister” and not The King's Daughter" which she was supposed to carry had she been of royal blood.
Perhaps she was a sister or half-sister to her husband, King Thutmose I, and marriage between brother and sister was not common in ancient Egypt except among members of the royal house at that time in order to maintain 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 Tuthmosis (I) became the heir to the throne of King Amenhotep I.
The book "Queens of the Pharaohs: The Drama of Love and Power" pointed out that the most important outcome of this blessed marriage was the birth of two daughters, Neferubiti "Akhbet Neferu" and Hatshepsut, whose fame spread horizons all over the world.
Queen Ahmose remains in the background of events during the reign of her husband, King Thutmose I, but she jumps to the fore in the reign of her daughter, Queen Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who wove an exciting story in which she claimed that the god Amun tented her mother Queen Ahmose cohabitation with husbands and gave birth to the child Hatshepsut, and the queen Hatshepsut fabricated this political propaganda or what we know as the “divine birth story” and documented it on the walls of her Deir el-Bahari temple in order to gain her legitimacy in ruling the country as a woman of a kind of holiness who wants to strengthen her rule in the eyes of the people by claiming that she is a descendant of the gods.
Tue, Mar. 8, 2022
