July
03
/ 2025
The character know to mythology as Queen Scotia, or in her own country, Queen Meritaten, is perhaps most famously linked to her half-brother Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who is probably the most famous ancient Egyptian, since the discovery of his tomb in 1922, by Howard Carter and his team. She is of course linked to Moses and Ramses II by Manetho of the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt, writing around 1000 years after her death, but this association is of course an expected error, caused by the erasure of Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Aye II from the Egyptian Kings List, by Horemheb, the final Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. Meritaten’s Family and Historical Context Meritaten is also linked to Nefertiti, perhaps the most famous
