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dot com. History. Hello and welcome to a history of Egypt podcast interview.

My guest today is Dr Joyce Tildesley, research associate of the Manchester Museum.

Joyce is an Egyptologist who specializes in prehistoric archaeology and the power of women in ancient Egypt. Joyce earned her PhD from

Oxford University and has been a teaching Egyptologist for many years.

Among Joyce's publications are Cleopatra Last Queen of Egypt, Tooten-Karmen search for an Egyptian king,

and most recently, Nefertiti's face, the creation of an icon.

Joyce's primary research has been on Egyptian historiography and the role of women in their society.

To help me explain the power of Queen T and Queen Nefertiti.

I asked Joyce if she might join us for a discussion about these two women.

The interview you're about to hear is the first half of that discussion, in which we discuss the role of T, wife of

Armon Hote the third, mother of Akhenaten, and General Bad-Arkart. T was a significant power player during one of the most significant phases of Egyptian

royal history. Without further ado, let me introduce Queen Tea first of all and then get into the interview with Dr Tildesley. Nebma Attere Atray, Amunhoteb the third was dead.

In his place, Power came to his son, Amunhotep the fourth, later known as the King Arcanaten.

This story is not really about Amunhotep or Amunhotep. Instead, it's about Queen T. Queen T, the legend herself outlived her husband.

When Nebma Atre died, the great royal wife ascended to a new rank, one shared by many of her forebears.

She became the moot nesuit, king's mother, and in this new identity she became synonymous with maternal deities like Hathor and

moot. While it probably didn't change her political power that much, this status shift may have been significant, particularly in the first years of her son's reign.

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