Nefertiti Tomb Analysis

The artist lecture that I went to for the second time was the one by Liz Cummins on the uncovering of Nefertiti’s tomb. It was recently discovered by Nick Reeves that her tomb may lie just behind that of King Tut’s. Due to the same size of the tomb and the way that it is laid out has lead Reeves to think that her tomb lies right behind that of Tut’s and if we were to blast off the walls we would make another great Egyptian discovery. It is a common misconception that Nefertiti is Tut’s mother. She was in fact the chief queen before him but she only gave birth to three daughter, one that was still born. There are depictions of her and her husband, Akhenaten, who pushed the religion of the sun disk onto their Egyptian subjects, caring for their daughter where in these early depiction emotion was
Although that there were other gods of worship in it there was only one centralized god, possibly Rah. After the rule of Nefertiti and Akhenaten, there was a short rule of Smenkhkane before Tut was crowned. Tut was put on the throne at age nine and had ten years of rule before his inevitable death. It was originally thought by Howard Carter that his burial ground had been robbed by raiders but it was later found that the real gravesite of Tut was left almost untouched. Once this was found the government commissioned the restoration of the tomb. In Tut’s tomb on the South East and North wall there is implications of walls being built to seal off a section of the tomb. It is believed by Reeves that after Nefertiti and Akhenaten were buried, most likely holding hands, and Tut was proclaimed dead, that they pushed the walls of their tomb forward to make room for the young king to fit in as well. This was used as part of a series of techniques to stop grave robbers. This issue is still going on as they are petitioning the government of Egypt to allow them to blast down the walls for discovery