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smenkhkare (1336–1334bc)
smenkhkare or smenkhare reign after akhenaten and before the reign of tutankhamun. most of the historians suggested that smenkhkare rule for few months or one year at most. other egyptologists suggested that he rule more than 10 years. ...

How Did King Tut Really Go?!
He may have had a brother Smenkhkare, or as some think he could have been is father after all. He did have six half-sisters from Akhenaton and Nefertiti (if Akhenaton was his father really!). He was married to his probably half-sister ...

tutankhamun: his tomb and the treasures"
professor james allen argues that tutankhamun was more likely to be a son of the short-lived king smenkhkare rather than akhenaten. allen argues that akhenaten consciously chose a female co-regent named neferneferuaten as his successor, ...

Egypt's 18th & 31st Dynasties
Nefertiti's disappearance coincided with the sudden appearance of a young man named Smenkhkare. Smenkhkare, who was given the same title (Neferneferuaten) as the now vanished Nefertiti, was crowned co-regent to Akhenaten when he ...

Queen Nefertiti
Together, we know that Akhenaten and Nefertiti has six daughters, though it was probably with another royal wife called Kiya that the king sired his successors, Smenkhkare and Tutankhamun. Nefertiti also shared her husband with two ...

Biography of Akhenaten
There were two mystery figures in Akhenaten's family–Smenkhkare (Akhenaten's co-regent and successor), and Tutankhaten (later Tutankhamen). These two were almost certainly brothers–this was basically confirmed by the discovery of ...

Tutankhamun (King Tut)
It seems he did not succeed Akhenaten directly as ruler of Egypt, but either an older brother or his uncle, Smenkhkare (keeping in mind that there is much controversy surrounding this king). We believe Tutankhamun probably had two ...

Amenophis III
Amenhotep also may be the father of a third child—called Smenkhkare, who later would succeed Akhenaten, briefly rule Egypt as pharaoh, and who is depicted as a woman. Amenhotep III and Tiye may also have had four daughters: Sitamun, ...

Nefertiti By Michelle Moran
Others believe that she disguised herself as a man and assumed a new identity as Smenkhkare so that she could rule as co-regent with her husband. It is even speculated that she simply died from the plague and her death was so painful ...

Egyptology News» Blog Archive » KV55 - CT-Scan of mummy (Akhenaten ...
However, even Hawass has recommended caution re the identification, saying that the mummy could actually belong to one of a number of people, and Aidan Dodson believes that the mummy is that of Smenkhkare, but says that there will ...