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To: mairdie

After Tut died was forced into marriage to vizer, AY.

She wrote a secret letter to Hittite king asking him to send prince to marry

Hittite Emperor suspecting trap sent court physician on mission to check out story.

Find it was true and dispatched one of his sons to Egypt to marry her. Details leaked and Hittite prince and party were ambushed at frontier and massacred. She disappeared
shortly after this , presumably murdered.....


45 posted on 01/17/2018 4:59:14 PM PST by njslim
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To: njslim

Good summary.


47 posted on 01/17/2018 5:01:16 PM PST by Tax-chick ("It's the end of the world as we know it ... if the sky is falling, I don't want to be below it.")
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To: njslim

No one in their right mind wanted to be a prince or a princess for most of Egyptian history, I would think. Might be good for a long afterlife after getting their brains taken out thru their noses, but not much good for the here and then.


53 posted on 01/17/2018 5:22:35 PM PST by mairdie
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