Nefertiti

Was Nefertiti Buried in the Valley of the Queens?

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Her enigmatic, striking beauty has captured millions of hearts around the world, however, her final resting place has never been located.

It remains to this day, one of Egypt’s most outstanding mysteries.

She may be ancient Egypt’s most famous face, but the quest to find the eternal resting place of Queen Nefertiti has always been hotly sought after.

Ever since 2015, when Egyptologist Dr. Nicholas Reeves first suspected there were still undiscovered chambers lying inside the tomb of Tutankhamun, possibly housing the mummy of Nefertiti , the race has been on to find what could become the greatest tomb discovery in history.

Do the remains of the ancient world’s most famous woman lie concealed in the Valley of the Kings , frustratingly close to the tomb of her nephew, Tutankhamun?

Or does she lie instead in the Valley of the Queens, a nearby cemetery once used for royal Egyptian women?

The Valley of the Queens was known in ancient times as Ta-Set-Neferu, “The Place of Beauty”, and it would only be fitting for Nefertiti to rest here, since her name shares the hieroglyph nefer, or “beautiful/perfect”, and her name means “the beautiful one has arrived”.

Could the tomb of Egypt’s most beautiful and enigmatic Queen, really be just inches from the most well-known and visited tomb in the world?

Nefertiti has become one of Egypt’s most famous Queens.

She was wife to that country’s most revolutionary and bizarre ruler, Amenhotep IV.

He became an avowed monotheist and aniconist in his early years as king, and changed his name to Akhenaten.

Evidence from these early years, suggests that Nefertiti was just as involved in the new religious cult as her husband, and performed important duties as a high priestess to the sole new sun god, the Aten.

In the fifth year of his rule, Akhenaten founded a new city half-way between Thebes and Memphis, calling it “the Horizon of the Aten”, Akhetaten, modern Amarna.

He relocated his wife, family and royal entourage and lived there for thirteen years, before he ultimately disappeared.

The Royal tomb that Akhenaten had built for himself and his family appeared as if it was never used, and no remains of the king or queen were ever found there.

Half-way down the tomb's corridor, on the right, a doorway opens onto a long string of corridors and chambers, all unfinished and undecorated.

Could this possibly be the suite of rooms intended for Nefertiti?

Alternatively, could Nefertiti be buried in the Valley of the Kings?

There is good evidence that she became Pharaoh of Egypt after Akhenaten vanished, under the name “Ankheperure Neferneferuaten”.

Since Nefertiti had always been known as Neferneferuaten during her years as Queen, it seemed logical that she must have assumed the throne in the wake of her husband’s disappearance.

There is also evidence that she began to abandon the ultra-strict monotheist program of her husband, and return Egypt to more traditional ways.

Therefore, if Nefertiti became Pharaoh, perhaps co-Pharaoh with a young Tutankhamun, who was only eight when he ascended the throne, it is very likely that she would have wanted a tomb in the traditional royal cemetery at Thebes, the Valley of the Kings. Could Tutankhamun’s tomb originally have been built for Nefertiti?

The boy~king died so unexepectedly, no tomb had yet been built for his journey onto the afterlife.

Additionally, it has been theorized that Tutankhamun's famous golden mask of Tutankhamun originally belonged to someone else....

Evidence includes the fact that the mask is made of many different pieces, including a front and back panel which are of different compositions.

Also, some of the hieroglyphics have been re-inscribed.

The mask was likely made with a new face piece in the image of Tutankhamun, this was soldered and riveted in place after the original face (and earrings) had been removed.

Did this original face depict Nefertiti?

It is now recognized that a major flash flooding event occurred in the Valley of the Kings at the end of the 18th Dynasty, not long after Tutankhamun was buried.

This concealed the entrance to his tomb with rock debris, helping it avoid detection for over three millennia.

Could a similar phenomenon, perhaps even the same flash flooding event, have affected the nearby Valley of the Queens, possibly hiding the entrance to Nefertiti’s tomb?

Could this tomb have then been subsequently covered in flood debris and hidden?

The Valley of the Queens corresponds to the first target identified for Nefertiti’s tomb, and the data overlap strongly suggests a possible future huge discovery there.....

“Nefer Say Nefer"

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https://www.ancient-origins.net/.../nefertiti-burial-0018007

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https://ko-fi.com/thetudorintruders

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