Various possibilities are considered for the identity of Nibhururiya, and for his interpretation Stavi finds it more likely that this king was either
Akhenaten or Smenkhare.
DNA evidence has shown that
Akhenaten was Tutankhamun's father, but Egyptologists do not agree on the identity of his mother.
It was
Akhenaten, though, who was one of the first to attempt to cleanse the prevailing culture of its monuments to the past.
However it was
Akhenaten's sister who gave the kingdom its heir Tutankhamen.
Other experts have claimed Nefertiti, the wife and chief consort of King
Akhenaten, was the boy's mum and also a cousin of the king.
Critique: "From
Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change" is a seminal work of truly impressive scholarship.
She said that Tutankhamun could have been trying to undo the changes brought by
Akhenaten, and return Egypt back to its traditional religion with its mix of gods.
Invited by the ROM's Friends of Ancient Egypt (FAE) in cooperation with Toronto's Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (SSEA), Kemp presented City of the Sun God: Amarna and its rulers,
Akhenaten and Nefertiti on Thursday, September 19 in the Eaton Theatre.
Scholars' speculation has worked on overdrive here, ranging from suggestions that
Akhenaten suffered from different illnesses to the idea that the exaggerated artistic style is thought to have a religious significance.
The truth is that in the fifth year of his reign, Akhnaten moved his court from Thebes, for centuries the seat of pharaonic power, to the newly built Akhetaten, halfway down the Nile the Tell el Amarna of Barry Kemp''s book (The City of
Akhenaten and Nefertiti - Amarna and its people) where he drifted into megalomania, declining to listen to any opinion but his own, and approving of sculptured bas reliefs, which show the golden disc of Aten, reaching down to him and his queen, in a strikingly haunting concept, with each beam of light ending in a miniature human hand.
In the sculpture garden on the second floor of Berlin's Neues Museum is a full length depiction of
Akhenaten, the Egyptian sun king, with, what Thomas Mann described as his chicken legs held firmly shut and his arms--which look as if they may have been holding something--missing.
"The City of
Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People" is a study of these ruins recently uncovered in Egypt after over three thousand years undisturbed.