Tut married one of them, his half sister, whose name was Ankhesenamun. That makes Yuya and Tuyu the great grandparents of both Tut and his wife. A renowned archaeologist in Egypt has made a startling claim that he’s finally found the lost mummy of Queen Nefertiti. Nefertiti and Akhenaten had six daughters. The complications continue into the next generation. Nefertiti was one of them, which makes her Tut's stepmother. Tiye and Amenhotep's son Akhenaten was probably Tut's father, and a woman named Kiya, perhaps a foreign princess, may have been his mother. But like other Egyptian pharaohs, Akhenaten had multiple wives. Their daughter Tiye became the Kate Middleton of her day when she married the country's most eligible bachelor-Amenhotep III, one of the most powerful pharaohs in all of Egyptian history.
Tut's family tree is complex in ways that are typical of ancient Egyptian royalty. Yuya and Tuyu weren't royals, but they must have had connections in the upper tiers of society. Unauthorized use is prohibited.īut what if another relative is buried there instead of Nefertiti? What might that person's eternal possessions look like? Glimpses of the possible array of artifacts can be seen among the grave goods of Tut's great grandparents-Yuya, his great grandfather, and Tuyu, his great grandmother, who lived around 1400 B.C. Archaeologists say they have found a gold leaf-covered mummy sealed inside a sarcophagus that had not been opened for 4,300 years.
