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Queen Nefertiti: The Most Powerful Queen In Egypt

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Queen Nefertiti is an Egyptian queen from 1353 to 1336 B.C, she is known as the most mysterious queen to reign in Egypt, she known as the most powerful queen, and was seen as an important part of Egypt. Queen Nefertiti reigned in the throne next to Pharaoh Akhenaten. She’s known for being the most powerful queen and for being the most beautiful woman in Egypt.

Queen Nefertiti is known as the most mysterious queen to reign in Egypt. There are various theories many from where she is from to who was her father. There’s a theory that says Queen Nefertiti may have been the daughter of Ay, who went on to become a pharaoh after King Tut’s death. Another theory states that she was a princess from the Mittani kingdom in Syria.No one knew about her childhood. There wasn’t any evidence as to who her parents were. In the twelfth year of her husband’s reign she disappears from any historical record. A theory states that she may have died at that point, but to oppose that some say that it is possible that she became her husbands co-regent under the name Neferneferuaten. People also thought that the pharaoh to reign next, Smenkhkare was another name for Nefertiti so she could dress as a male to rule as a pharaoh. People even thought that she disappeared because she was no longer favorable to her husband Akhenaten, during her reign she had six daughters, they needed a male heir. It is said that because Queen Nefertiti did not have a son he looked elsewhere and dismissed her. People say

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