Tomb of Queen Tiy/Smenkaure

The royal wiife Tiy
Tiy was the wife of King Ay.  Tiy  first  looks  during  the Amarna Period, when she is described as the nurse of Nefertiti. It has been supposed that Ay was the father of Nefertiti, in which face Tiy would be her stepmother. She is later showed as Ay's queen after he risen the throne, which makes it implausible that he married Ankhesenamun.

Her tomb was plain tomb. Discvoered by Davis, who did not read the contents before taking them. Her mummy was rather a man < 26 with signs of hydrocephaly, which may be Akhenaten -- or marks of platycephalis (clear skull) and could be Smenkaure, Tutankhamun's herald. Despite new evidence, the Musem still says Smenkaure.



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