Who is Queen Kiya? Op-ed

There is no connection between Queen Kiya and King Tutankhamun. This is what I wrote in Tutankhamun's opera, where we said that he was born from the second wife of King Akhenaten.

The DNA scientists who worked with me in the Egyptian project to study royal mummies, led by the Egyptian scientist Dr. Yahya Gad, the mother of King Tutankhamun is the queen whose mummy was found in Cemetery No. 35.

It is the tomb of King Amenhotep II. It turns out that this mummy called the Mummy of the Young Lady, the daughter of King Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye. She is the sister of King Akhenaten, whose mummy was found inside the sarcophagus found in the tomb 55 of the Valley of the Kings.

So this queen cannot be Kiya or Nefertiti; Because we have about five daughters of King Amenhotep III.

Does Queen Kiya have a connection with Hebrews?

If we try to read what was written about Queen Kiya before the real mother of Tutankhamun is revealed, we will know that this lady has no connection with the Hebrews, and message No. 155 of Amarna's letters does not indicate that either.

If a specialized scientist reads this message, he will know the truth. If an amateur reads it, he may interpret it as he likes.

It is often believed that King Tutankhamen’s mother was an unknown wife. She was Kiya and her origins were unknown, and there is a suggestion that she might have been Tadakhiba, who was a princess from the Mitanni state in northern Syria. She was sent to Egypt through diplomatic marriage.

However, Kiya may have given birth to a girl. This is based on two large texts on two stone blocks of the Ashmunites that have been erased. They show a missing name for a royal daughter, but it is related to the name and surnames of Kiya.

The suggestion of the name Kiya as the mother of King Tutankhamun comes from the premise that all proposals are acceptable in this regard, except that his mother Nefertiti. It was also suggested that Kiya was "Dakhamanzo."

She was often the literal translation of the Egyptian title, wife of King "Tahamat-Nsu", the Egyptian queen who was mentioned in one of the Hittite texts when she sent a message to the Hittite king requesting that one of his sons be sent to marry Kiya after her husband died.

This proposal has no support. Because Queen Kiya ruins were destroyed and not appreciated before Akhenaten's death.

Contributed by Ahmad El-Assasy