When the pharaoh Tutankhamun died young, his widow may have tried to remain on the ancient Egyptian throne, ancient letters reveal.
Tutankhamun, the famed ancient Egyptian"boy king" who ascended the throne as a child, died when he was around 19 years old, sometime between 1327 B.C and 1323 B.C. But Tut's death was unexpected, and he left no heirs to the throne. So who ruled in the power vacuum that followed?
But Ay wasn't welcomed by the former ruling family. Ancient letters suggest that Tutankhamun's widow, Ankhesenamun, was desperate to prevent Ay from becoming pharaoh and asked the Hittites, a kingdom based in Anatolia , to send a prince who could marry her and rule Egypt, Dodson wrote.
That said, not everyone agrees that Ankhesenamun actually wrote those letters, said Joyce Tyldesley , an Egyptology professor at the University of Manchester in the U.K."We have to be very careful not to take the Hittite letter at face value," Tyldesley told Live Science in an email."Is this really a genuine appeal for a husband — this seems most unlikely."
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