Nefertiti Ancient Egypt

History Project on Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

1) Nefertiti

Nefertiti, name meaning “a beautiful woman has come”, was born around 1370 BC and died about 40 years later, at 1330 BC. She was the 18th dynasty of Egypt, the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten since she was 15 and was the most famous queen of the time of Ramesses II. Nefertiti and her husband ruled Egypt from 1336 BC to 1336 BC, having six daughters and possibly a son in their relationship. Their daughter Ankhesenamun would eventually marry her own half-brother Tutankhamun, who ultimately became the ruler of Egypt.

Tiy

Tiy, also spelled Taia, Tiye and Tiyi, was the daughter of Yuya, a non-royal wealthy landowner from Akhmin and Thuya, possible a member of the royal Egyptian family. She was born in 1398 BC and died in 1338 BC, becoming the great royal wife of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III

However, there have been many theories on how the pyramids came to be including magic, being gifted from the gods and them naturally appearing there.

3) The pyramids were crucially significant to the Egyptians in relation to being tombs. This was because the Egyptians believed that it was necessary to grant the Pharaoh’s immortality after death in the afterlife. The tombs were also filled with various luxuries and magical spells that were believed to be used by the pharaoh in the underworld and afterlife.

General Topics

1) The ancient Egyptians could have learned a lot about us if they saw our ostracon. Because the ancient Egyptians lived in a period where technology was non-existent, 21st-century ostracon such as e-mail could be seen as magic to them. They could also learn a lot about the 21st-century education systems by looking at educational resources such as reports, blackboards and