Smenkhkare

The book presents the various theories on the phantom-like Amarna-ruler Smenkhkare. His or her identity and sex and rule are unclear. It starts with the name Smenkhkare Djeser Kheperu Ankh-Khepru-Ra which are in fact not one birth and one throne name but two throne name. This point to the possibility, that Smenkhkare is a constructed identity and someone else is behind it. He or she may be Hittite Prince Zananza, Queen Nefertiti as successor of Akhenaton, a younger (and never mentioned) son of Amenhotep III or another unknown member of the royal family in Amarna. The mummy in KV 55 is a vital element of the great Enigma of Egyptology.

The book presents the various theories on the phantom-like Amarna-ruler Smenkhkare. His or her identity and sex and rule are unclear. It starts with the name Smenkhkare Djeser Kheperu Ankh-Khepru-Ra which are in fact not one birth and one throne name but two throne name. This point to the possibility, that Smenkhkare is a constructed identity and someone else is behind it. He or she may be Hittite Prince Zananza, Queen Nefertiti as successor of Akhenaton, a younger (and never mentioned) son of Amenhotep III or another unknown member of the royal family in Amarna. The mummy in KV 55 is a vital element of the great Enigma of Egyptology.