Younger Lady "KV35YL Mother of Tut" 18TH DYNASTY THEBAN EGYPT : Family tree by Joan DOUGHTY (cousinj

THE YOUNGER LADY is the informal name given to a mummy discovered in the ancient Egyptian tomb KV35 by archeologist Victor Loret in 1898. Through DNA tests this mummy has recently been identified as the MOTHER OF THE PHARAOH TUTANKHAMUN. The mummy also has been given the designation KV35YL ("YL" for "Younger Lady") and currently

THE YOUNGER LADY is the informal name given to a mummy discovered in the ancient Egyptian tomb KV35 by archeologist Victor Loret in 1898. Through DNA tests this mummy has recently been identified as the MOTHER OF THE PHARAOH TUTANKHAMUN. The mummy also has been given the designation KV35YL ("YL" for "Younger Lady") and currently resides in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

The mummy was found adjacent to two other mummies in KV35: a young boy who died at around the age of ten, and another, older woman, who has been called The Elder Lady. All were found together laying naked side-by-side and unidentified in a small antechamber of the tomb. All three mummies had been extensively damaged by ancient tomb robbers.

There has been much speculation as to the identity of the Younger Lady mummy. Upon finding the mummy, Victor Loret had initially believed it be of a young man as the mummy's head had been shaved. A closer inspection later made by Dr. Grafton Elliot Smith confirmed that the mummy was that of a female. Recently, DNA test have shown conclusively that the mummy is that of a female, and that she was the mother of Tutankhamun, and by extension a wife of Akhenaten. As a result the mummy has been tentatively identified as being that of Kiya, although Akhenaten had several wives so this conjecture cannot be confirmed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Younger_Lady_(mummy)

PARENTAGE OF KING TUTANKHAMUN Scholars had not reached consensus on the identity of Tutankhamun's parents. An inscription calls him a king's son, but it was not clear which king was meant. An extensive DNA analysis whose results were publicized in February 2010 confirmed that he was the son of Akhenaten and AKHENATEN'S SISTER (also his wife).

At one time Tutankhamun had been thought to be a son of Amenhotep III and his Great Royal Wife Queen Tiye. Instead, he has been confirmed as their grandson, child of their son and daughter. Later research claimed that he may have been a son of Amenhotep III, although not by Queen Tiye. She would have been more than fifty years old at the time of Tutankhamun's birth.

DNA results released in February 2010 confirm Tutankhamun as the biological son of Akhenaten and grandson of Queen Tiye. Tutankhamun's mother has been confirmed as Mummy KV35YL, a sister of Akhenaten. Her identity as of this date is still unidentified.

A common hypothesis held that Tutankhamun was the son of Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, and his minor wife Queen Kiya. Queen Kiya's title was "Greatly Beloved Wife of Akhenaten" so it is possible that she could have borne him an heir. Supporting this theory, images on the tomb wall in the tomb of Akhenaten show a royal fan bearer standing next to Kiya's death bed, fanning someone who may be a princess. Researchers also thought the figure was a wet nurse holding a baby, considered to be the boy king-to-be.

Professor James Allen argued that Tutankhamun was more likely to be a son of the short-lived king Smenkhkare rather than Akhenaten. Allen argued that Akhenaten chose a female co-regent named Neferneferuaten as his successor, rather than Tutankhamun. He thought that would have been unlikely if the latter were his son. Smenkhkare appears when Akhenaten entered year 14 of his reign. Scholars believe that during this time Meritaten married Smenkhkare. Smenkhkare, as the father of Tutankhamun, would have needed at least a three-year reign to bring Tutankhamun to the right age to have inherited the throne. However, if there had been lengthy co-regency between Amenhotep III and Akhenaten, Amenhotep could have been Tutankhamun's father (later disproved by DNA testing).

Recently, Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced the recovery of a part of a limestone block depicting Tutankhamun and his wife Ankhesenamen, along with text. These identify both Tutankhamun and his wife Ankhesenpaaten as "children of the king's body" or the biological son and daughter of Akhenaten. This shows the repetition of marriage between royal siblings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun

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