The Wife of the Pharaoh

Box 1054, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1054. Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W) referenced her as one of the preeminent women of all ages.

She is an example for the entire world that no matter the situation you are in, your dignity and honor can stay in tact as long as you stay true to who you are and what you believe. Polygamy demonstrated the wealth of the pharaoh and provided insurance that he would have an heir. A total eclipse occurred on May 13, 1338 BCE, and Egypt fell into darkness for more than five minutes.

Some images (a She (or he) may also well have selected the next sovereign, Tutankhaten—a boy of just 7 or 8 who was too young to rule. Egyptian royal families were always tangled by the intermarriage of siblings as well as by children and their parents: Nefertiti's life story is difficult to trace because she went through several name changes.

She lived a life of unparalleled wealth and luxury. He defunded and shut down temple institutions at Heliopolis and Memphis, and co-opted elites with bribes of wealth and power. His mother Tiy died the next year. There are multiple theories about what may have happened. In one particular year, the newborn boys could live, and in the next, the newborn boys were killed.“And We inspired to the mother of Moses, ‘Suckle him; but when you fear for him, cast him into the river and do not fear and do not grieve.

Do not kill him; perhaps he may benefit us, or we may adopt him as a son.’” (Q. GM 62: pg 67-77O'Conner and Cline, Thutmose III: A new biography,2006Tyldesley, Chronicle of the Queens of Ancient Egypt, pg 110 Moses grew to be a great prophet, who called his people to the worship of the one God. Asiya was not a typical lady. Together they had at least six daughters. Nefertiti grew up in the royal palace at Thebes and had an Egyptian woman, the wife of a courtier of Amenhotep III, as her wet nurse and tutor, which suggests she was of some importance in the court. Whoever she was, Nefertiti was set to marry the Pharaoh's son, who would become Amenhotep IV by the time she was about 11 years old. Although the witnesses of her death believed she was degraded and left this world in a sad state, she achieved an extremely elevated status.

The Wife of the Pharaoh is the nearest Ernst Lubitsch came to making a film like Metropolis. She told him she believed in the true God, disbelieved in the pharaoh, and did not care about what he would do to her while knowing he felt no remorse at burning children alive and having women raped.After learning of his wife’s true beliefs, he took her to the desert, starved her, and stripped her.

This evidence might suggest that Nefertiti was the mother of Tutankhamen and a first cousin of Akhenaten; or that Nefertiti was his grandmother, and Tutankhamen's mother was not Kiya but one of Nefertiti's daughters.

She lived in ancient Egypt during the rule of the most oppressive pharaoh in history. Not only did she live under his rule, but she lived in his home as his wife. At the same time, however, he was so paranoid of being overthrown (as a fortune teller predicted) that he ordered baby boys born in the land to be killed. Examples include A special place in the history of great royal wives was taken by O'Connor and Cline (Editors), Amenhotep III: Perspectives on his reign, pg 6G. Hearing the stereotypes of Muslim women as passive, weak, and oppressed is really disappointing, not to mention flat out wrong. In ancient Egypt, the word queen is translated as King’s Wife. A religious reformer … When Pharaoh found out that she believed, he tortured her severely.Her belief in God was so strong, it made her an everlasting symbol:Asiya was a queen. Only one wife, known as the King’s Great Wife, would be featured in official records.