Pleas of a Desperate Queen

Pleas of a Desperate Queen

The Ancient Egyptians were a civilization of great creativity and expression, but also a civilization with a very strict position on tradition, and I found them absolutely fascinating. When learning about King Tutankhamen's mysterious legacy, I was very intrigued by the pleas that Tutankhamen's wife Ankhesenamun wrote to the king of the Hittites after her husband's premature death. Her letters were desperate and emotional and very powerful to read and definitely gives its readers, whether they're students or historians, a real sense of mystery and that the queen knew more than what she was willing to say. Egypt was known for its long line of powerful kings, each wanting to prove themselves more powerful than their predecessors, and the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Undoubtedly, I can very much sympathize with the queen and her feelings at the time she wrote her letters to the king. She lost her husband and essentially stable control of her empire in a very short amount of time. She had no biological heir and in any situation, is going to be forced to marry someone who not of Egyptian royal blood, which to her I'm sure was a painful thing to have to think of. But through these letters I sense more panic than grief. I sense a kind of fear and frantic undertone to the messages. I cannot imagine the sudden and unexpected death of her husband left her without questions, there is probably many more dark details related to King Tutankhamen's death that she knew that the people of our day will never know. I believe that her pleas to the Hittite king were genuine and true, and that she'd rather marry royalty from another country than be forced to marry someone socially beneath her just to have a new man assuming the throne. Through reading this document and learning about the traditions and concepts of Egyptian culture, I honestly have a better understanding of the formations of strict monarchies over history and the way that the Egyptian monarchy worked and how important tradition and cultural values were to their intensely strong society. I got a fee l for the strengths and personality that Queen Ankhesenamun had and that she was deeply

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