Archaeologist: nurse Tutankhamun could be his sister – RIA Novosti

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© AP Photo / Nariman El-Mofty

© AP Photo / Nariman El-Mofty

© AP Photo / Nariman El-Mofty

MOSCOW, December 21 – RIA Novosti . The first nurse and the nurse of King Tutankhamun, son of the first in the history of the earth king of the reformer Akhenaten could be his sister Meritaten that once again forced scientists to doubt who was his mother, says French archaeologist Alain Zivi.

Pharaoh Amenhotep and his wife Nefertiti and his son Tutankhamun is considered one of the brightest and most interesting of the rulers of ancient Egypt era of the New Kingdom. Amenhotep had one of the first in the history of the Earth’s religious reforms, try to replace the classical gods of Egypt and influential priests in the cult of worship of the Sun in the person himself. Nefertiti was considered a model of beauty Bronze Age, and Tutankhamun attracted the attention of scientists and the public of his mysterious death at the age of 20 years and untouched “cursed” tomb.

A short history of the life of Tutankhamen as telling Zivi, full of mysteries – we still since we do not know from which he died the Pharaoh who exactly was his mother why he would be buried in a hurry and who is hidden behind the northern wall of his tomb, the falsity of which recently opened a famous Egyptologist Nicolas Reeves.

The Chronicles of Amarna they say that the first nurse of the pharaoh was a woman named Maya, a spokeswoman for the noble circles, whose remains were buried in the necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo. Tomb of Maya, according Zivi was found his research team in 1996, but only now the Egyptian authorities have given permission for an autopsy and investigation and analysis of the remains of the tomb of its inmates.

When the researchers looked into the tomb, I saw Zivi bas-relief, which was depicted Maya. The first glance at the picture caused great surprise archaeologists – it’s nurse of the pharaoh was depicted on a throne with the infant, Tutankhamun, who was resting on her knees.

The features, its shape and other details were almost identical for Pharaoh and Maya, and it seems there is a bas-relief in the tomb of Amenhotep. That being said Zivi makes a very big confidence suggests that the Maya actually was the daughter of Amenhotep and Nefertiti, the elder sister of Tutankhamen named Meritaten.

Given that DNA Pharaoh and all known wives of Amenhotep do not have a common, like the discovery of a very strong argument in favor of that Meritaten or one of the sisters of Amenhotep could be the mother of Tutankhamun.

The answer to this question, as recognized scholar, would get extremely difficult, Meritaten because mummy has never been found. Genetic analysis and comparison of fragments of its DNA genome with his father and brother, said Zivi, would allow 100% dispel doubts that Maya and Meritaten – one and the same person. According to some Egyptologists, the secret room in the tomb of Tutankhamen could not hide Nefertiti and Meritaten, as we learn in a short time, when scientists begin to study it.

A month later, as promised by the representatives of the supervisory authorities of Egypt tomb Mayi-Meritaten will be open to visitors and tourists and the inhabitants of Egypt will be able to look into the secrets of one of the most unusual and mysterious in the history of the families of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom.