Amarna Period

Nefertiti

Chief queen of Akhenaten. Her parentage is unknown: she may have been a member of the wider Egyptian royal family, or a Mittanni/Syrian princess marriage to Akhenaten in a diplomatic marriage. She disappears sometime after Year 12, long thought to have died but now believed to have been crowned as a female coregent with her husband. She is the mother of six daughters: Meritaten, Meketaten, Ankhesenpaaten, Nefernefruaten-Tasherit, Nefernefrure and Setepenre. She became a female pharaoh and briefly outlived her husband on the throne of Egypt.

Meritaten

eldest daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. She marries firstly Smenkhare and then her father after her mother either died or was promoted to become co-pharaoh.

Meketaten

Second daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, died young, her death and funeral scenes are carved on the walls of the Royal Tomb at Amarna.

Ankhesenpaten

Third daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. After Akhenaten's death she married prince Tutankhaten. They abandoned worship of the Aten an changed their names to Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun (removing the Aten element from their names)