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1 Still undiscovered tombs?
Architecture II: tombs The Valley of the Kings is not dead Still undiscovered tombs? Nefertiti? Akhenaten?

2 Missing pharaonic mummies and tombs
Tuthmosis II Ramses VIII Akhenaten & Nefertiti Smenkhkare & Meritaten

3 Hatshepsut’s mummy identified

4 KV 63: uninscribed tomb Otto Schaden

5 Five coffins and embalming material

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8 Queen Kiya

9 KV 55: uninscribed Canopic jar of Kiya

10 Finds from KV 55 Shrine of queen Tiye
Coffin of Kiya and male royal with erased cartouche Magical brick of Akhenaten Finds from KV 55 Royal pectoral

11 Akhenaten and Nefertiti mourning the death of one of their daughters
Valley of the Amarna Kings Akhenaten and Nefertiti mourning the death of one of their daughters Sun disc motif in the Royal Amarna Tomb

12 KV 55 skeleton/mummy

13 “Younger and the Elder Lady”
Akhenaten and Nefertiti?!? Mummies of the “Younger and the Elder Lady” The “Younger Lady” = Nefertiti?

14 Tutankhamun’s family tree
(after Hawass et al. 2010) Yuya & Thuya Amenhotep III & Tiye Akhenaten? & Nefertiti? Tutankhamun & Ankhesenamun? Fetus 1 & 2

15 Tutankhamun’s family tree
(differing from the Hawass et al. paper) Tiye Meketaten Meritaten


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