Page 269 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

Nefertiti, wife of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten, and mother of Ank-
hesanamon, is the best known of all the queens of Egypt, solely on ac­
count of this portrait bust, from the studios of Akhenaten’s new capital at
Tell al-Amarna. If, as is likely, Nefertiti was also Akhenaten’s sister, she
came of a long line of queens, and had clearly inherited the beauty and
intelligence for which they were famous.

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