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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jim Stinehart: [QB] Queen Tiye is too old to be Tut's birth mother. Amenhotep III dies in Year 38 or Year 39 of his reign, at about age 48 or 49. Queen Tiye was probably 2 years older than her hsuband, Amenhotep III. On the long co-regency theory, with which I am in total agreement, Akhenaten became junior co-regent in Year 28. Tut was born 10 years later, in Year 38 of Amenhotep III's reign, being Year 10 of Akhenaten's reign, give or take one year. So Queen Tiye was approximately age 50 at Tut's birth. It is impossible for a woman age 50 in the ancient world to give birth and live to tell the tale. No can do. Queen Tiye was too old to be Tut's birth mother, but Queen Tiye did function as the only mother that Tut ever knew. That means that Queen Tiye was very fond of Tut's birth mother. Tut's birth mother must have been Sitamen, the daughter of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye. Sitamen died in chldbirth in Year 10 of Akehenaten's reign, giving birth to Tut. Sitaman would have have been about age 27 at the time. That was fairly old in the ancient world to give birth. But it is realistic, especially since Sitamen did not survive this birth (in her fairly old age). Sitamen had previously given birth to Beketaten, whom Queen Tiye also raised as her own child. Queen Tiye lived to Year 14 of Akhenaten's reign, so she functioned as Tut's de facto mother for about 5 years. That is why a locket of Queen Tiye's hair is in Tut's tomb, and why there is no remembrance of any kind of Tut's birth mother. It all makes sense if one looks at the objective facts. Amenhotep III had made a huge deal out of marrying his favorite daughter, Sitamen. Certainly Amenhotep III would not deny his favorite daughter a chance to bear a son, who might well go on to become the next great pharaoh of Egypt. Menawhile, Kiya and Nefertiti and Akhenaten's three oldest daughters are still living in Year 13, so they cannot have died in childbirth in Year 9 or Year 10 giving birth to Tut. And in Kiya's case, there is no way that Queen Tiye and Tut would have had warm feelings for each other if Tut's mother was from the harem. All the facts are against Kiya being Tut's mother. Everything points to the same result. Sitamen was Tut's birth mother. Sitamen died in childbirth in Year 9 or Year 10. Queen Tiye raised Tut as her own child. Jim Stinehart [/QB][/QUOTE]
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