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Nefertiti

The Ancients

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What Is the Art of Amana?

The people now are not allowed to worship the god directly. They have to worship through images of acanaten efititi. So this immediately gives her status. And another thing that is worth mentioning at this point is that she starts to have children. We see that she has eventually six daughters, but we don't know whether she has sons or not. But it is traditional not to show royal sons s in royal art at this time. She's clearly very important. I think it's really hard for us to understand just how powerful the king was, and how powerful his queen was. How different they were from other wives who would havee tmana.

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