The Younger Lady
With Younger Lady ( English for " young lady " ) is called a discovered in the Valley of the Kings Ancient Egyptian mummy. She was together with many other royal mummies found in 1898 by the archaeologist Victor Loret in KV35 grave, the grave of Amenhotep II. The mummy was in 2010 by DNA analysis as the mother of Tutankhamun and the daughter of the King and Queen of Amenhotep III. and Tiye be identified. It is alternatively referred to as KV35YL ( " YL " for " Younger Lady" ) and is currently in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (inventory number CG 61072 ).
Discovery and identification of
The mummy was found in the grave KV35 between two other mummies: a deceased at the age of about ten years boy, which is being either the prince or Webensenu Thutmose, and an older woman who could be identified as Queen Tiye. All three mummies were found naked next to each other and unidentified in a small antechamber of the tomb. They were in a very bad condition, as they had been largely destroyed by ancient grave robbers.
About the identity of the Younger Lady was much speculation. When Victor Loret found the mummy, he held it because of the bald skull initially for a young man. Later, Dr. Grafton Elliot Smith conducted a detailed investigation and found out that the mummy was female, nevertheless, Lorets claimed original misinterpretation for a long time. It was only in 2010 autosomal and mitochondrial DNA testing could definitively prove that the mummy is female, moreover, that they. , The mother of Tutankhamun, and the daughter of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye was.
As a father of Tutankhamun 's mummy could be identified from grave KV55, which turned out at the same time as the brother of the husband Younger Lady. Some Egyptologists, including Zahi Hawass, think of the mummy of Akhenaten, while others, such as the anthropologist Joyce Filer, see in it the mummy of Smenkhkare.
The investigation revealed that it is unlikely that it could be at the younger lady (or at Tutankhamun's mother) to Nefertiti or Akhenaten's second wife Kiya act, as no transfers from both the title " princess " or " King's Sister ". Also doubtful equating the younger lady with one of Amenhotep III appears. Daughters Satamun, Iset or Henuttaunebu, as are all been great royal wives of her father. For a marriage to Akhenaten had a need to take from them the place as Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. It seems more realistic the possibility to attribute the mummy Nebet - tah or Baketaton, both also daughters of Amenhotep III. were, however, not married to that.
Description
Grafton Elliot Smith delivered the beginning of the twentieth century in his assessment of the royal mummies an extensive description of the Younger Lady. Accordingly, the mummy was 1.58 meters tall and at the time of death does not older than 25 years. Smith also mentioned the damage caused by ancient grave robbers. The grave robbers smashed the chest of the mummy and tore the right arm below the shoulder from. Also, the right ear was broken off and pushed a 38 × 30 mm hole into the frontal bone. Smith found that the Einbalsamierungsmethode consistent with the mummy of Amenhotep II and other contemporary mummies, and suspected that the Younger Lady was with this in close relationship.
Injuries to the mouth and left cheek of the mummy that have destroyed parts of the jaw were also originally thought to be the work of grave robbers, but showed a re-examination, which took place at the same time on the genetic tests that the injuries were inflicted before death and have led the wounds ultimately lead to death of the woman.