eventually #Suppiluliuma was convinced by the #Dakhamunzu (how the Hittites called the Egyptian queen) or at least he was interested enough to unite the two empires. so he sent his son #Zannanza - who promptly died under mysterious circumstances on the Egyptian border. #Suppiluliuma was furious […]
well she had every reason to be afraid, because royal or not, #Horemheb had been appointed crown prince of Egypt for a long time, even before Ay. her plan to marry a #Hittite prince instead was absolutely unheard of and extremely risky. so when her planned father-in-law #Suppiluliuma cautiously […]
I'm convinced that the widow in question who wrote to #Suppiluliuma was #Tutankhamun's wife #Ankhesenamun who - after his sudden death at just 18 - was shortly married to his old religious consultant and successor Ay but then refused to marry his next successor #Horemheb. she had known him for […]
after visiting the Egyptian exhibit I was reading a lot about #Tutankhaton (I still refuse the -amun postfix) and that's how I learned about the #Dakhamunzu affair...now that sort of stuff is just catnip to me: after the death of the pharao his widow wrote to the enemy Hittite king #Suppiluliuma […]
