[Sam Cree]

Nefertiti was married to Akhenaten (Amenhotep), not Ramses, as I recall. Akhenaten, while Pharoah, was a monotheist, and changed Egyptian religious practice to monotheism during his reign. After his death, Egypt reverted to polytheism immediately. Googling seems to say that Moses' time was 100 years later, but he may have been influenced by Akhenaten and Nefertiti's sungod monotheism.

Interestingly, blam posted a thread some time back in which an English Egyptologist claimed to have found the mummy of Nefertiti. She is now no longer allowed into Egypt.

Bust of Nefertiti from another angle. A good looking woman, truthfully.

[Sam Cree]

Meant to ping you to #80

[HairOfTheDog]

I am very confused.

[Swordmaker]

Googling seems to say that Moses' time was 100 years later, but he may have been influenced by Akhenaten and Nefertiti's sungod monotheism.

Doubtful... under the revised Egyptian timeline, the Amarna letters written by Egypt's representatives to Akhenaten's, and later Tutakhenaten's courts detailed the events in the Canaan/Judean area that parallel the Biblical stories of King Saul, his son Jonathon, and David, the young lion. Akhenaten's social experiment in monotheism, and its internalization of the Pharoah's attention and interests, corresponded with a power vacuum in Babylon... allowing the upstart Hebrews to form their own kingdom in the hills above the contested tradeways between the two superpowers of the time.

The revised timeline would put Moses (Ra-Moses?) and the Exodus a couple hundred years earlier.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Googling seems to say that Moses' time was 100 years later, but he may have been influenced by Akhenaten and Nefertiti's sungod monotheism.

Or possibly a hundred years before. I have always personally favored Tuthmosis III/Hatshepsut as the Pharaohs of the Exodus. It fits much better in the time line and something did happen at the end of Hatshepsut reign. Something so bad that she was almost blotted from history because of it.

[SunkenCiv]

Nefertari was chief and beloved wife of Ramses II. He lived a long time, and she died long before him. He had of course other wives and consorts, and they spit out babies like vending machines for him.

Nefertiti was chief wife of Akhenaton, but may have had some childbearing problems. She died before him, although there's an anachronistic revisionist need to make her into one of his successors, ruling as a male pharaoh. The "evidence" for this is flimsy at best.

There has also been a drive on to make Moses and the Exodus contemporary with the Amarna period, when Egypt was weak. Some have even claimed that the pharaoh and Moses were one and the same. By that reckoning Moses and the Israelites had to hustle their bustles into Canaan after Egypt lost effective control (the gradual loss is documented in the Amarna letters) but before various other powers gained control. Obviously this leaves very little time for everything to unfold.

But Hollywood saddles on anything where Biblical figures can be lampooned and degraded into adulterous, fornicating wretches.

[Hey, nice soapbox under 'Civ!]

[eclectic]

C'mon, good looking with a cataract eye and a crooked ear?

[BenLurkin]

Funny thing though, she doesn't look like she's related to Queen Latifah.