134b: The Burial(s) of Akhenaten

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Side-episode. Today we discuss some "extra" items from Akhenaten's tomb. Also, we return to KV55, that elusive monument in the Valley of the Kings, to see some reasons why it *might* be Akhenaten. Date c.1346 BCE Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com Music by Ancient Lyric www.bettinajoydeguzman.com Select Bibliography: Connolly, R.C. ‘Kinship of Smenkhkare and Tutankhamen Affirmed by Serological Micromethod: Microdetermination of Blood Group Substances in Ancient Human Tissue’. Nature 224, no. 5217 (1 October 1969): 325–325. Davis, Theodore M. The Tomb of Queen Tiyi: The Discovery of the Tomb, 1910. Dodson, Aidan. Amarna Sunrise: Egypt From Golden Age to Age of Heresy, 2014. ———. Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation. 2nd Edition, 2017. Dodson, Aidan, and Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004. Duhig, Corrinne. ‘Comments on “Biological Age of the Skeletonised Mummy from Tomb KV55 at Thebes (Egypt)” by Eugen Strouhal’. Anthropologie 48, no. 2 (2010): 113–16. Eaton-Krauss, Marianne. ‘Reprise: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Amarna’. Chronique d’Egypte 88, no. 175 (1 January 2013): 64–80. Gabolde, Marc. D’Akhenaton à Toutânkhamon, 1998. ———. ‘L’ADN de La Famille Royale Amarnienne et Les Sources Égyptiennes’. Égypte Nilotique et Méditerranéenne 6 (2013): 177–203. ———. ‘Under a Deep Blue Starry Sky’. In Causing His Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane, edited by Peter J. Brand and Louise Cooper, 2009. Habicht, M.E., A.S. Bouwman, and F.J. Rühli. ‘Identifications of Ancient Egyptian Royal Mummies from the 18th Dynasty Reconsidered’. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159, no. S61 (1 January 2016): 216–31. Harrison, R. G. ‘An Anatomical Examination of the Pharaonic Remains Purported to Be Akhenaten’. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 52 (1966): 95–119. Hawass, Zahi, Yehia Z. Gad, Somaia Ismail, Rabab Khairat, Dina Fathalla, Naglaa Hasan, Amal Ahmed, et al. ‘Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun’s Family’. JAMA 303, no. 7 (17 February 2010): 638–47. Kemp, Barry J. ‘The Amarna Royal Tombs at Amarna’, 2016. https://amarnaproject.com/documents/pdf/Amarna-Royal-Tombs.pdf. ———. The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2014. Martin, Geoffrey Thorndike. The Royal Tomb at El-ʻAmarna. 2 vols, 1974. Murnane, William J. Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt., 1995. Redford, Donald. ‘Akhenaten: New Theories and Old Facts’. Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 369 (2013): 9. Reeves, C. N. ‘A Reappraisal of Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings’. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 67 (1981): 48–55. Reeves, Nicholas. Akhenaten: Egypt’s False Prophet, 2001. Smith, Grafton Elliot. The Royal Mummies, 1912. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	The History of Egypt Podcast is a member of the Agora Podcast Network. Visit Agora Podcast Network.com to hear more wonderful shows from many talented colleagues. Ere, Nini, Inchen, Greetings to you. Welcome back to the History of Egypt Podcast. This is episode 134 B, the
1:08.9	burials of Arkenaten. Today I want to cover some other aspects of the King's Royal Tomb, things I did
1:17.0	not get to discuss in the last episode. Also, I want to tackle the question of K. V. 55, that mysterious grave in the valley of the Kings,
1:27.0	that might hold the mummy of Arcanaten.
1:31.0	K. V. 55 and Arkenartan have a complicated relationship and we should dig into it a little bit deeper.
1:38.0	So this episode is more supplementary, an add-on to episode 134. If you are just here for the main
1:45.7	story feel free to skip it, but if you want some more nitty gritty details
1:51.0	about Arganaten, stick around. I think this material is fascinating, and I hope
1:56.9	you will agree. Now then, on with the show. In his 17th Reginal year, sometime around 1346 b. C. E Arkinaten the king of southern and
2:17.4	northern Egypt died. He was probably in his early to mid-30s as far as the historical evidence is concerned.
2:26.1	He died of natural causes as far as we can tell and when he passed his heirs prepared the body for its burial.
2:35.0	Soon the king's mummy travelled east of Aiket, Aet, the royal city,
2:40.4	and in a secluded tomb hidden among the cliffs of an old river valley,
2:45.1	Arcanatin went to his rest.
2:47.3	The tomb of Arcanatin at Amana was discovered in the late 1800s. It was first found by the locals who lived in this area.
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