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Amanishakheto is known from several monuments. She is mentioned in the Amuntemple of Kawa, on a stela from Meroe, and in inscriptions of a palace building found at Wad ban Naqa, from a stela found at Qasr Ibrim, another stela from Naqa and her pyramid at Meroe (Beg. no. N6). Amun (also spelt Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imenand, and spelt in Greek as Ammon, and Hammon) was the name of a deity, in Egyptian mythology, who gradually rose to become one of the most important deities, before fading into obscurity. ... Aerial view of the pyramids at Meroe. ... Qasr Ibrim is an archeological site in Lower Nubia. ...

Amanishakheto is best known from a treasure of jewellery recovered in 1834 from her pyramid in Meroe. These pieces are now in Berlin and Munich Berlin is the capital city and a state of Germany. ... Munich (German: München, (pronounced listen) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ...

Further reading

• Laszlo Török, in: Fontes Historiae Nubiorum Vol. II, p. 723-725 (Bergen, 1996). ISBN 8291626014

External links

• The treasure of the queen (English)
• Stela found in Naqa
• Chicago Oriental Institute Archive: picture of her destroyed pyramid