Show widow W adow in royal romance sought to wed son of king of hittites Hift Hitt ites while pharaohs Phara body was not yet cold luxor lexor egypt an ancient document recently unearthed in anatolia discloses an amazing royal romance in which queen ankh a amen consort of pharaoh tutankhamen tut ankh amen was one of the principals it also appears that the queen was banished by tut ankh amens successor pharaoh ay this remarkable document has been translated by prof archibald H one of the leading babylonian and egyptian scholars of great britain it reveals the extraordinary fact that while king tut ankh ameris amena body was still upon its blen bier awaiting burial his twenty seven seve year nye old ar wife dispatched an ambassador to the king of the hit eltes who WM was then besieging the ancient city of between and damascus to induce the king to give her one of his sons BOOS in marriage message of queen my husband Is dead said the egyptian queen to the ruler through her ambassador 1 I have no children your sons are said to be groin aroun up it if you will give me one of them and it if he be will III be my husband he be will be a great helpmate the king of the apparently doubted the motives mothes and good falth faith of the egyptian queen lie ile replied to her overtures the son of your lord the king where Is he be hayr hare you deceived mel me the general of the army Horem heb hits has not nominated my son to the kingship the queen thereupon rejoined what Is this you say I 1 have deceived you it if I 1 had bad a son and my people had a ruler I 1 would not have sou sought abt the hand band of a man from another country no one las had bad children by me I 1 have no son give me one of your sons song as my husband and he will be king of the land of egypt the document shows that the royal romance was almost completed by the hittite kings giving the fair suitor one of his sons but just as the marriage was ivas about to be celebrated king ay seized the throne of egypt and the hapless queen was banished owed kingship to queen history and archaeology tall fall to tell the fate of quen ankh s amen she seems to have entirely disappeared from view after king ay usurped the throne it la Is known only that she was waa the real inheritor of the throne and that tutankhamen tut ankh amen owed his kingship entirely to her rights of royal succession it Is presumed that ay ays motive in banishing her was to prevent a foreigner from ruling over egypt especially a hated hittite american archaeologists who gave the text of this amazing document to the associated press corres correspondent t regard the foregoing circumstances as one of the most dramatic revelations in present day knowledge know knoAl ledge edge of egyptian history the hittite narrative they say makes it clear that tut ankh amen did not have bare progeny to centime his flourishing reign it also makes it extremely unlikely they add that the body of queen ankli ankh s amen will be ba found in the royal necropolis polls |