After Akhenaten: Nefertiti, Smenkhkare, and where were they all buried?

At just after 26 minutes when you show Tutankhamun's throne it makes me think he never gave up his Aten religion. He was born in Amarna and saw the last 5 years of Akhenaten's reign and then the 5 years of Nefertiti's. His wife was a daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. I think when they restored religious freedom starting in Nefertiti's reign and continuing in Tutankhamun's reign Tutankhamun and Ankhesunamun continued to worship the Aten. They also still had themselves shown in the Amarna art style. If he was 9 or 10 when he became Pharoah and 18 or 19 when he died then the picture on the face of the throne shows the couple towards the end of his reign. He looks like he's in his late teens. It makes me think that while religious freedom was restored and any of 100 Gods could once again be worshipped throughout the land inside of the palace Akhenaten's religion still flourished. I think that while the people may have gone back to Amun the Pharoah and Queen continued to worship as they had been raised to at Amarna. I wonder if they made trips to Akhetaten and worshipped in the great temple there from time to time. After all it was still being used through the time of Ramses 1. Also you can see how through his reign Tutankhamun and Ankhesunamun are consistently pictured in the loose more human Amarna art style. So this means when he had the choice this was how he chose to be presented. But when he died and he wasn't making the choices anymore the art in his tomb is completely traditional. If you look at the walls of the tombs at Amarna painted in the Amarna style and then look at the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb you can see a complete reformation. Yet Tutankhamun had not chosen that reformation during his life. It was brought in upon his death. I think that while allowing traditional worship and art in Egypt as a whole again in his own private life Tutankhamun and his Queen lived as they had before. I think they were loyal to their background.

I was in Tut's tomb thirty years ago, as well as a number of the other tombs in the valley of the Kings. I never get tired of these great lectures on the subject. Thanks for a fascinating talk.

Thank you for being professional and logical, and avoiding making blanket affirmations of fact of what clearly remains theory. Behaving as if we know everything is an unpleasant behavior that seems designed to keep down competition. It is common among practitioners of any field, but certainly has been an unfortunate behavior among Egyptologists.

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Totally hooked on these talks. So interesting. When you feel like what else can be brought to the subject you quickly realize thats a ridiculous statement...so much fascinating history

Very informative thanks Chris

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So very interesting. I enjoyed this very much. I am fascinated with Ahkenaten and his history. Thank you.

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The general scenario around the various mummies indicates to me that there might have been a sudden, hasty removal of burials from Akhetaten to King's Valley. At some point in Tut-ankh-aten's reign he became Tut-ankh-amun and his wife's name was similarly changed. Around that time it must have become clear that Akhetaten would have to be abandoned and any burials would be unguarded and available to any grave robbers passing through. I could picture everything from the tombs being dismantled and shipped and stored. Before everyone could be properly re-entombed, Tut died. The best grave goods were quickly repurposed and stored -- thankfully safe for millennia -- in his tomb. Apparently regime change and other turmoil stopped funerary rites and reburial of the others, so they remained stored in empty caves. Thus everything from the mundane to the exquisite remains of the eighteenth dynasty were out of sight and out of mind until 1922.