kolyaafter visiting the Egyptian exhibit I was reading a lot about #Tutankhaton (I still refuse the -amun postfix) and that's how I learned about the #Dakhamunzu affair...now that sort of stuff is just catnip to me: after the death of the young pharao his widow wrote to the enemy #Hittite king #Suppiluliuma to send her a son she could marry and make him the new pharao. because she refused to marry any of her subjects. but Suppi had some reasonable doubts about that...
eventually #Suppiluliuma was convinced by the #Dakhamunzu (how the Hittites called the Egyptian queen) or at least he was interested enough to unite the two empires. so he sent his son #Zannanza - who promptly died under mysterious circumstances on the Egyptian border. #Suppiluliuma was furious and attacked the Egyptians, taking thousands of hostages, who brought a plague to the #Hittites of which #Suppiluliuma eventually died. #Horemheb became pharao and #Ankhesenamun wasn't heard of again.