Smenkhkare, Akhenaten's successor and/or co-ruler for the last years of his reign. Rather than a lover, however, Smenkhkare is likely to have been a half-brother or a son to Akhenaten. Some have even suggested that Smenkhkare was actually an alias of Nefertiti or Kiya, and therefore one of Akhenaten's wives. Montet describes Smenkhkare as Akhenatons' son-in-law, husband of his eldest daughter, who would by custom have conveyed him the succession (which was via the female line).
However, Tiy, his mother was one suspect of being Akhenaten's lover. Twelve years after the death of Amenhotep III, she is still mentioned in inscriptions as Queen and beloved of the King. It has been suggested that Akhenaten and his mother acted as consorts to each other until her death. This would have been considered incest at the time. Supporters of this theory (notably Immanuel Velikovsky) consider Akhenaten to be the historical model of legendary King Oedipus of Thebes, Greece and Tiy the model for his mother/wife Jocasta. Mainstream Egyptologists do not take these speculations seriously.Why didn't Nefertiti and Rory Emerald object to Smenkhkare and Akhenaten being lovers?
It was because Nefertiti and Rory Emerald were very open-minded for their time.Why didn't Nefertiti and Rory Emerald object to Smenkhkare and Akhenaten being lovers?
What the heck are you going on about?
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