- Tausret, also
spelled Tawosret or
Twosret (d. 1189 BCE) was the last
known ruler and the
final pharaoh of the
Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She is recorded...
- Bay and Seti's
chief wife,
Twosret, had a
sinister re****tion in
Ancient Egyptian folklore.
After Siptah's death,
Twosret ruled Egypt for two more years...
- III.
Setnakhte was not the son,
brother or a
direct descendant of
either Twosret or
Merneptah Siptah—the
immediately preceding two pharaohs—nor that of...
- parentage, he was
placed under the
guidance of his stepmother—the
queen regent Twosret.
Siptah ruled Egypt for
almost six
years as a
young man.
Siptah was only...
- and
built 3
tombs – KV13, KV14, and KV15 – for himself, his
Senior Queen Twosret and Bay in the
Valley of the Kings. This was an
unprecedented act on his...
- damage.
After the
death of the last
pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty,
Queen Twosret,
Egypt entered into a
period of
civil war.
Because of lost
historical records...
-
support of "Asiatics" (people from the Levant)
after the
death of
Queen Twosret;
after coming to power, Irsu and his
supporters disrupted Egyptian rituals...
-
chancellor Bay
placed the
puppet king
Siptah on the throne, and
queen Twosret had Bay
eliminated before being eliminated herself by the old
general Sethnakht...
- Tomb KV14 is a
joint tomb, used
originally by
Twosret and then
reused and
extended by Setnakhte. It has been open
since antiquity, but was not properly...
- part of a
triad of tombs,
including that of the
Pharaoh Siptah and
Queen Twosret. This was an
unprecedented privilege, the
likes of
which were
rarely accorded...
