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- A Pharaoh's Widow Begs for a Husband
You may have heard of Akhenaten and Nefirtiti.
You definitely heard of their son, Tutankhamun.
Picture his older sister, his widow.
She writes a letter to the Hittite King Suppiluliuma I.
Suppiluliuma is shocked, fearing deception.
Why did you say 'they deceive me' in that way? You did not believe me, and you even spoke thus to me! He who was my husband is dead. I have no son! Never shall I take a servant of mine and make him my husband! I have written to no other country. Only to you have I written.
Ankhesenamun
The King sends Zannanza, his son, to his great grief.
For Zannanza is killed before reaching his bride-to-be.