Aidan Dodson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Jun
Aidan Dodson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there's no way that they would have slipped off of the record.
Absolutely.
So her sister is a lady called Mutnajmet.
which is a very typical Egyptian name, as is Nefertiti, for that matter.
People have made quite a lot of her name meaning a beautiful woman has arrived or a beautiful woman has come, but there are other Nefertitis around, or E-Nefertis, which are basically the same name, including a later tomb workman.
So there's nothing you can read into the title about that.
Another thing against her being a foreigner is that...
foreign, although we know about a lot of foreign diplomatic wives coming into Egypt, none of them at this period ever become anything major.
Yeah, I suspect what happens is that the marriage is about the connection between the two countries.
And once they've arrived, there's probably very little interest.
And it may also be a question about the personality of the individual.
When the lady turns up, does the king actually want her hanging around at court?
Or would she rather go off and have some luxurious pampered life in a backwater somewhere?
Yeah.
Again, we have nothing to do... We have no information about these kind of dynamics.
We've not got any sort of peeps' diaries or anything like that about what the gossip is going on at court.
All we know is that some of these people turn up
And that's sort of about it.
Nefertiti first appears on temple walls about a year or so after Akhenaten comes to the throne.
And when she does appear on temple walls, she appears on a very, very large scale.
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