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Ankhesenamun , "Her Life Is of Amun" c. 1348 – after 1322 BC) was a queen of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt . Born as Ankhesenpaaten, she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti , and became the Great Royal Wife of her half-brother Tutankhamun .[1] The change in her name reflects the changes in Ancient Egyptian religion during her lifetime after her father's death. Her youth is well documented in the ancient reliefs and paintings of the reign of her parents. Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun shared the same father but Tutankhamun's mother has recently been established by genetic evidence as one of Akhenaten's sisters, a daughter (so far unidentified) of Amenhotep III .
Ankhesenamun was definitely married to one king; she was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Tutankhamun .

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Ankhesenamun , "Her Life Is of Amun" c. 1348 – after 1322 BC) was a queen of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt . Born as Ankhesenpaaten, she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti , and became the Great Royal Wife of her half-brother Tutankhamun .[1] The change in her name reflects the changes in Ancient Egyptian religion during her lifetime after her father's death. Her youth is well documented in the ancient reliefs and paintings of the reign of her parents. Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun shared the same father but Tutankhamun's mother has recently been established by genetic evidence as one of Akhenaten's sisters, a daughter (so far unidentified) of Amenhotep III .
Ankhesenamun was definitely married to one king; she was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Tutankhamun .