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Mummies 317a and 317b were the infant daughters of Tutankhamun, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.Their mother, who has been tentatively identified through DNA testing as the mummy KV21A, is presumed to be Ankhesenamun, his only known wife. 317a was born prematurely at 5–6 months' gestation, and 317b was born at or near full term.
Ankhesenamun (ˁnḫ-s-n-imn, "Her Life Is of Amun"; c. 1348 [1] or c. 1342 – after 1322 BC [2]) was an ancient Egyptian queen who lived during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. Born Ankhesenpaaten ( ˁnḫ.s-n-pꜣ-itn , "she lives for the Aten"), [ 3 ] she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal ...
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Meritaten was the first of six daughters born to Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife, Nefertiti.Her sisters are Meketaten, Ankhesenpaaten, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure, and Setepenre. [3]
Though only 10 years old when ascended to power, Tutankhamun took his half-sister Ankhesenamun as his bride shortly after notes the Daily Mail. RELATED: Mummies found at burial site in Egypt.
Meketaten died in approximately Year 14 of Akhenaten's reign. [3] She most likely died of a plague along with other members of the royal family. Between Years 12 and 15, many members of the royal family disappear from the record and cease to be mentioned again: Queen Mother Tiye, King's second consort Kiya, and the King's Daughters Neferneferure, Setepenre, and Meketaten.
Chief among the genetic results was, "The statistical analysis revealed that the mummy KV55 is most probably the father of Tutankhamun (probability of 99.99999981%), and KV35 Younger Lady could be identified as his mother (99.99999997%)." [62] The study further identified the two mummies as children of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye. [63]
Since both Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit and another princess, Meritaten Tasherit appear only in texts that once mentioned Akhenaten's second wife Kiya, it is also possible that they were children of Akhenaten and Kiya, or that they were fictional, replacing the name of Kiya's daughter, who might have been Beketaten, more commonly thought to be Tiye's child.