Amenia’s lineage is unknown. She was likely the mother of Isitnofret. Very little is known about her, and she seems to have died before Horemheb (c. 1319-1292 BC) ruled as pharaoh.
Mutnedjmet was likely the daughter of Pharaoh Ay (c. 1323-1319 BC) and Tey.
Mutnedjmet’s siblings were possibly Nakhtmin, Nefertiti, Mutbenret.
Mutnedjmet’s father, Ay (c. 1323-1319 BC), may have been the son of Yuya and Thuya.
Tiye, one of the most powerful and influential queens of Ancient Egypt, would’ve been Ay’s sister. Anen would’ve been his brother.
Mutnedjmet’s mother, Tey, was known to be Nefertiti’s wet-nurse.
Mutnedjmet's mummy shows she had given birth several times, but Horemheb did not have a living heir at the time of his death.
Horemheb was the last pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty Egypt. His lineage is unknown. He's believed to have originally come from Hnes, on the west bank of the Nile, near the entrance to the Faiyum.
Horemheb, had been designated as the "Deputy of the Lord of the Two Lands" under Tutankhamun and was presumed to be his apparent successor.
Tutankhamun died at age 18 or 19. A small bone fragment on the inside of his skull initially led some historians to believe that he was murdered by a blow to the back of his head.
Since their two children were stillborn (317a and 317b), Tutankhamun was the last of the royal male siblings and there was no immediate heir apparent to assume the throne.
A document was found in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusa dating back to the Amarna period in which Ankhesenamun requests that the Hittite king, Suppiluliuma I (c. 1350-1322 BC), send her a son to marry so that she is not forced to marry her “subject,” likely Pharaoh Ay.
Hittite King Suppiluliuma I (c. 1350-1322 BC) agreed to send Zannanza, the second-youngest of his five sons, to Egypt. Zannanza never made it past the Egyptian border. Angry letters were passed between the two nations, but the matter ended inconclusively. Hittite forces subsequently attacked Egyptian settlements. Sick prisoners of war brought back to the Hittite Empire after these attacks caused a deadly epidemic that spread rapidly throughout. As a result, Suppiluliuma I and his heir Arnuwanda II (c. 1322-1321 BC) died from the epidemic.
Ay ruled Egypt for four years.
The suspicious death/disappearance of the Zannanza resulted in hostilities between Egypt and the Hittites, which did not come to an end until Ramesses II (c. 1279-1213 BC) signed a treaty with the Hittites following the Battle of Kadesh in 1274 BC which promised peace and a defensive alliance.
The Battle of Kadesh took place between the Egyptian Empire led by Pharaoh Ramesses II against the Hittite Empire led by King Muwatalli II (c. 1295-1272 BC), Hattusili III (c. 1267-1237 BC), and Talmi-Sarruma of Aleppo. Their armies engaged each other at the Orontes River.
Horemheb was succeeded by his Ramesses I (c. 1292-1290 BC), who was then succeeded by Seti I (c. 1290-1279 BC).
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