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The Younger Lady

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The modern designation for an unnamed female mummy found in tomb KV35, identified by the 2010 DNA study as a full sister of the KV55 individual and the biological mother of Tutankhamun. No inscription names her. The DNA relationships are the study’s findings, widely accepted though its genetic data have been questioned; every proposed identification (including Nefertiti) is hypothesis.

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The Amarna Mysteries

Mystery novels of ancient Egypt, built on the scholarship of the Amarna period. Published by The WordFish Group GmbH, Basel.

The Series

  • Series overview
  • Geography of the series
  • Naming Ancient Egypt
  • Healers & poisons
  • Scribes & bureaucracy

The Amarna Period

  • Overview
  • Akhenaten & the Aten
  • The royal women
  • Succession & aftermath
  • Horemheb

Behind the Books

  • Overview
  • Methodology
  • Research
  • Reader's Companion
  • From the Notebook

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