Have you ever wondered who was in the Royal Family of Egypt? The Royal Family included Akhenaten and his chief wife Nefertiti, (the two rulers of Egypt at the time), and their six children, which were all girls. Their first born daughter was Meretaten. She was born before the move to Akhenaton. Their second born, Meketaten had also been born before the move to Akhenaton. When their third daughter was born, it was somewhere between the sixth and seventh years of rule of her mother and father, and she was given the name Ankhesenpaaten. Their next daughter was probably born in 1346 BC, and they called her by the name of Nefernefudten Tasherit, after her mother. Have you started to notice that a lot of the names in ancient Egypt were pretty weird? Then they had another daughter, just a year later in 1345 BC, and her name was Nefernefrune. Their sixth and final child was Setepenre. She was born in Akhenatena and Nefertiti's tenth year of rule. Wow, they had a big family!
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