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	Family Tree of Ahmose Nefertari
		Ahmose Nefertari outlived both her husband and her son Amenhotep I. During the next king, her son-in law Tuthmosis I, she still enjoyed a high esteem, and the king set up a statue of her in the temple at Karnak.
		The importance of the role of the queen-mother in Nubia, Egypt, and the rest of Black Africa: the women, the queen was the true sovereign, the keeper of the royalty and guardian of the purity of the lineage.
		The King is the Sign...While the Queen is the Symbol.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/ahmosenefertari.html (1028 words)

	Learn about Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut,wife of Pharaoh Thutmose III
		The difference between a Queen or King and a Pharaoh is in their god-like status.
		She was the eldest daughter of Thotmose I and Queen Ahmose.
		Considering she was a woman, and ruled for twenty years (a long time in those days), she must have been an extraordinary person.
	www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com /articles/hatshepsut.htm (924 words)

	Dynasty 18 - Ahmose I, Amenhotep I
		Ahmose I (Amosis to the Greeks) was given the birth name Ah-mose (The Moon is Born).
		In this instance, Ahmose I's mother, Ahhotpe, was probably responsible for putting down the rebellion and for this she was awarded the gold flies, an award for valor that was found on her mummy in her intact tomb at Thebes.
		The son of Ahmose and Queen Ahmose Nefretiri, Amenhotep I was the second king of the18th Dynasty.
	www.crystalinks.com /dynasty18.html (2327 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Queens
		Queen Aahotep I (c 1590-1530) was the daughter of Sanakten-Re Taa I and Tetisheri.
		Ahmose Nefertari was never a regent per sé, but through her, we get some knowledge about the new political role of women in the early 18th Dynasty.
		Ahmose Nefertari outlived both her husband and her son Amenhotep I. During the next king, Thutmose I, she still enjoyed a high esteem, and the king set up a statue of her in the temple at Karnak.
	www.philae.nu /akhet/Queens.html (1967 words)

	african woman as heroine
		Queen Tiye was the beloved wife of Nebmare Amenhotep III, and the mother of Akhenaten and Tutankhamen.
		Queen Nefertari's body was housed in a 5,200 square foot tomb decorated with vivid wall paintings--the most splendid in the Valley of the Queens--"The Place of Beauty." Her tomb paintings and inscriptions depict Nefertari as a woman of great charm and exquisite taste, adorned with magnificent jewelry and wearing fashionable gowns.
		Queen Istnofret, another distinguished African woman, was a contemporary of Nefertari, and was elevated to the position of Great Royal Wife upon Nefertari's death.
	ipoaa.com /african_woman_as_heroine.htm (1190 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Queen Ahmose
		Ahmose was married to Thutmose I of Egypt, a military general who became pharaoh and had more statues made of him than all the other pharaohs combined.
		Queen Tiye was the beloved wife of Nebmare Amenhotep III, and the mother of Akhenaten and Tutankhamen.
		Queen Nefertari's body was housed in a 5,200 square foot tomb decorated with vivid wall paintings--the most splendid in the Valley of the Queens--"The Place of Beauty." Her tom paintings and inscriptions depict Nefertari as a woman of great charm and exquisite taste, adorned with magnificent jewelry and wearing fashionable gowns.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Queen-Ahmose (1425 words)

	Queen Ahmose - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Queen Ahmose was the mother of Hatshepsut of Egypt.
		Ahmose was the granddaughter of Queen Ahmose-Nefertari and Amenhotep I of Egypt.
		Ahmose was the Great Royal Wife of Thutmose I, Pharaoh of Egypt, a military general who became pharaoh.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Queen_Ahmose (109 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tiy
		If the year of death was year 12 of Akhenaton's reign (1338 BC) this would place her birth around 1398 BC, her marriage to Amenhotep III at the age of thirteen and her becoming a widow at the age of forty-eight to forty-nine years old.
		Tiy (1415 - 1340 BC) was the Chief Queen of Amenhotep III and matriarch of the Amarna family.
		Tiy’s mother was Egyptian (a descendant of Ahmose Nefertari[?]), and it appears from his mummy that her father, Yuaa[?], may have been of Asiatic descent.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tiy (2559 words)

	Ahmose-Nefertari - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Queen Ahmose-Nefertari of Egypt was the sister-wife of Egypt's Pharaoh Ahmose I.
		She at first held the title of Second Prophet of Amun, but renounced it in either the 18th or 22nd year of Ahmose I and became the first God's Wife of Amun.
		When she died, she became the last queen to be worshipped in a Theban funerary cult until the time of the High Priest of Amun, Herihor, in the beginning of the 21st Dynasty.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ahmose_Nefertari (200 words)

	Ahmose I
		Ahmose had troubles of his own with his kingdom, he left the siege of Avaris in the control of his military commanders so that he was free to placate a rebellion in the Theban region.
		Ahmose was required to return to Nubia a second time, but little is known as to the cause of this need to return or the outcome of this campaign (similarly little is known of Ahmose campaign in the Levant).
		Ahmose also honoured his god for the many victories Ahmose had won - he edowed the temple of his capital city with many gifts, this act was to set a precedent for future kings of Egypt, one which begin the rise of Amun over all other gods of Egypt.
	members.tripod.com /~ib205/ahmose_1_1.html (954 words)

	THE AFRICAN WOMAN AS HEROINE
		Queen Istnofret, another distinguished African woman, was a contemporary of Nefertari, and was elevated to the position of Great Royal Wife upon Nefertari's death.
		Queen Tiye was the beloved wife of Nebmare Amenhotep III, and the mother of Akhenaten and Tutankhamen.
		Queen Nefertari's body was housed in a 5,200 square foot tomb decorated with vivid wall paintings--the most splendid in the Valley of the Queens--"The Place of Beauty." Her tom paintings and inscriptions depict Nefertari as a woman of great charm and exquisite taste, adorned with magnificent jewelry and wearing fashionable gowns.
	www.saxakali.com /saxakali-publications/runoko18.htm (1203 words)

	Ahmose-Nefertari - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Queen Ahmose-Nefertari of Egypt was the sister-wife of Egypt's Pharaoh King Ahmose I.
		The royal couple had a daughter, the Princess Hatshepsut, while Thutmose had a son by a lesser queen, Thutmose II.
		Queen Ahmose-Nefertari was the first Great Royal Wife (Queen of Egypt) to use the title God's Wife of Amun (each new Pharaoh was proclaimed as the son/daughter of Amun-Ra, Egypt's patron deity).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ahmose-Nefertari (124 words)

	Barbara S. Lesko, Royalty's Role
		Queen Nefertari is shown (in her own tomb's wall paintings) sacrificing at the high altar, just as Nefertiti of the previous dynasty had been so often depicted on more public monuments.
		Queen Nefertari is recorded as present at the investiture of a new First Prophet at Karnak (Kitchen, III, 282:12), and there remains the possibility that she could, in certain cults, within the inner sanctum of the temple, approach the great deities directly.
		Like the King of Egypt, the principle queen and mother of the heir to the throne was also considered a divinity, be it Hathor (daughter-wife of the sun-god with whom the king was equated) or as Isis (the personified throne and mother of the god Horus, another divinity equated with the king).
	www.stoa.org /hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2002.01.0007:section=6 (1420 words)

	Ahmose I (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ahmose I led campaigns to solidify the border in Syria in order to keep out a possible invasion from Nubia.
		In Abydos Ahmose built the Last Royal Pyramid in Egypt for his burial place, this pyramid is also the only one located in upper Egypt, The tomb at Abydos consisted of many parts, a cliff temple, the ceremonial tomb, a pyramid and a temple to the pyramid.
		Scenes from the pyramid-temple are thought to shown scenes of Ahmose and his victory over the Hyksos.
	www.aldokkan.com /egypt/ahmose.htm (178 words)

	God's Wife of Amun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ahmose Nefertari: Daughter of Seqenenre Tao II and sister-wife of Ahmose.
		(Ahmose-)Sitamun: daughter of Ahmose and represented as a colossal statue in front of the eight pylon at Karnak.
		There is mention in the tomb of a son named Harsiesi, chamberlain of the divine adoratrix, Head of the secrets of the God's Wife Nitocris in the House of Purification.
	euler.slu.edu /Dept/Faculty/bart/egyptianhtml/kings%20and%20Queens/God's_Wife_of_Amun.html (708 words)

	Queen Hatshipsut
		Queen Hatshepsut is the first queen in human history who ascended the throne in the middle of the 15th century BC.
		Queen Hatshipsut is famous because she has a temple that still stands up till now that is named after her, Hapshepsut's temple at Beir el-Bahri, near Luxor in the Valley of Kings.
		Queen Hatshepsut adopted several male attributes including a fake beard, male clothing, as well as having herself illustrated and treated like a man. It can be argued that this behavior was yet another instrument practiced by the queen in her pursuit for respect.
	www.kingtutshop.com /freeinfo/hatshipsut.htm (535 words)

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		Queen Hatshepsut was the daughter of Thutmose and his Queen Ahmose.
		In Queen Hatshepsut’s temple at Beir el-Bahri, near Luxor, in the Valley of Kings, the birth and coronation of the queen is described in paintings and other works of art.
		Queen Hatshepsut adopted several male attributes including a fake beard, male clothing, as well as having her illustrated and treated like a man. This behavior was yet another instrument practiced by the queen in her pursuit for respect, which proves to me those women where not equal to men.
	www.louisville.edu /~mtabel02/Page2.html (568 words)

	Thutmose I - Definition, explanation
		She was either the daughter of Ahmose I and Queen Ahmose-Nefertari or Thutmose I's sister.
		According to one of Thutmose I's admirals, Ahmose, son of Ebana, upon victory he had the Nubian king's body hung from the prow of his ship, before he returned to Thebes.
		Ahmose bore him two sons, Wadjmose and Amenmose, both of whom died before Thutmose I. A son by a minor wife, Mutnofret, became his heir and successor Thutmose II, with rival claims by his fully royal daughter Hatshepsut.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/th/thutmose_i.php (568 words)

	Women in power B.C. 4500-1000
		The first Dowager Queen of Egypt that is known with certainty to have acted as regent for her son, Djoser (Zoser), during the 3rd dynasty.
		Ahmose granted her a great estate and tomb with priests and servants to conduct mortuary rituals in her honor, and a cenotaph was made for her at Abydos.
		The Queens, Tawannas, are believed to have been a kind of co-regents to their husbands and they possessed considerable influence.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Womeninpower000.htm (4269 words)

	Egypt Heads
		Neferu was the consort and Queen of Pharaoh Amenemhat I. It is not known whether Neferu was of royal blood, but it is probable that Amenemhet married to strengthen his claim to the throne.
		She was a Queen during the 17th Dynasty in Thebes, and was the commoner wife of pharaoh Senachtenre (1594-1592).
		The daughter of pharaoh Totmes I and Queen Ahmes, she married her half-brother the Pharaoh Totmes II and was the real power behind the throne of Egypt, and was powerful enough to exercise supreme power when she took over the government as Regent for her husband's six year old son by a concubine.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /egypt_heads.htm (4555 words)

	africanfront.com (AUF)
		Ahmose restored an office of viceroy of Kush [styled as "King's Son of Kush"]and thus spread his own influence far to the south.
		Yuya the father of Queen Tiy is an official in the courts of both Tuthmosis IV and Amenhotep III.
		Queen Ankhesenamun, writes to Suppiliumas, the Hittite king, requesting one of his sons for her to marry and make pharaoh.
	www.africanfront.com /calendar.php (7820 words)

	Hatshepsut: Wicked Stepmother or Joan of Arc?
		The queen regent Hatshepsut is depicted in a graffito of Senenmut's at Aswan.
		As the chief queen of Tuthmose II and holder of the foremost female religious office of god's wife of Amun, Hatshepsut in her earliest portrayals was depicted in the typical costume of the royal consort, wearing a long dress and adorned with the vulture headdress or plumed platform crown.
		First, in the purely mythical setting of the "divine birth reliefs," her mother, Queen Ahmose, is impregnated by the god Amun, disguised as Tuthmose I, and the infant Hatshepsut is then acclaimed by a convocation of gods.
	fathom.lib.uchicago.edu /1/777777190131 (3146 words)

	Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt
		Queen Hatshepsut of the 18th dynasty was one of the few female pharaohs of Egypt.
		Hatshepsut was preceded by a number of important and seemingly influential queens in the 17th dynasty.
		(4) Queen Hatshepsut adopted several male attributes including a fake beard, male clothing, as well as having herself illustrated and treated like a man. It can be argued that this behavior was yet another instrument practiced by the queen in her pursuit for respect.
	www.geocities.com /jywanza1/Hatshepsut.html (733 words)

	Seeking the Queen of Eden - Mother Africa
		Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, participated actively in the expulsion from Kmt of the Hyksos--Kmt's first invaders and occupiers.
		Queen Nefertari's body was housed in a 5,200 square foot tomb decorated with vivid wall paintings--the most splendid in the Valley of the Queens--"The Place of Beauty." Her tomb paintings and inscriptions depict Nefertari as a woman of great charm and exquisite taste, adorned with magnificent jewelry and wearing fashionable gowns.
		Queen Nzingha died fighting for her people in 1663 at the ripe old age of eighty-one. Africa has known no greater patriot.
	members.fortunecity.com /obia1/rashidi.html (839 words)

	Ahmose-Nefertari
		This title was then passed down from mother-to-daughter by her descendants - it has been taken to mean a 'female regent', a wife whom the king must marry to cement his claim to the throne of Egypt (although there is still debate over this theory).
		Ahmose-Nefertari appears to have been a strong queen and partner for Ahmose I, she participated in building and quarrying projects - one stela documents that Ahmose I himself sought her approval before raising the cenotaph for Tetisheri at Abydos.
		She possibly served as co-regent for her son, Amenhotep I, after the death of Ahmose I (she outlived her husband by a number of years - her mummy indicates she died around 70 years of age).
	members.tripod.com /~ib205/ahmose_nefertari_2.html (158 words)

	Princesses and Princes
		Ahmose Hebt-Tenemu: A Princess of the 18th Dynasty.
		Ahmose Tumerisy: A Princess of the 18th Dynasty.
		Inhapi: A Princess of the 18th Dynasty and a lesser wife of 'Ahmose I. She was also the mother of Princess Ahmose Hent Tenemu.
	www.angelfire.com /realm2/amethystbt/Egyptprincessprinces.html (1027 words)

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