Aidan Dodson

And part of this was also a recognition that this female pharaoh really was female, not a male, which was another issue around all of this.

So over here, about 20-odd years, this recognition that Nefertiti...

did actually continue on and continued on as a fully-fledged pharaoh is something which has sort of changed history in the last 20-odd years.

Quite why she is then promoted to female pharaoh is another matter for debate.

A few months before.

So one wonders whether it is that he is ill, expecting to be assassinated, or has some other premonition of death, that he decides he wants to make sure that there is an adult to carry on the revolution.

Because at this point, his heir, the future Tutankhamun, is only a child.

And I think that Nacanarton's concern was that as death was staring him in the face, say, whether due to disease or whatever, his concern was that if he died and he had just a young son, that whoever was the regent might well then start to dismantle everything.

So he thinks, aha, if I make my wife my co-ruler, who can then carry on as pharaoh after my death...

and probably acting then as co-ruler with my son, hey, it'll all be fine.

But therefore, there's an adult continuing revolution.

Unfortunately, for Akhenaten, we know that within three years, Nefertiti, now known as Neferneferuaten, which is always part of a long name, but is now shortened as king, is dismantling his revolution.

Amun is back, and we're moving on.

Yeah.

Okay, what it is here is that...

A number of anonymous mummies were found in the tomb of Amenhotep II, which seems to have been used as a store place for displaced mummies.

Dumping rat.

In 2010, the results of a whole series of DNA tests on mummies belonging to the Amarna period or suspected to belong were published.

And the younger woman was proclaimed to be the mother of Tutankhamun.

Also, it was proclaimed in the publication of this that Tutankhamun was the offspring of a brother-sister marriage.