Tjuyu (sometimes transliterated as Thuyu) was an Egyptian noblewoman and descedant of Ahmose-Nefertari. She was the wife of Yuya, a powerful Egyptian courtier of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. Hieroglyphs on an Egyptian funerary stela Hieroglyphs at the Memphis museum with Ramses II statue on the back. ... Queen Ahmose-Nefertari of Egypt was the sister-wife of Egypts Pharaoh King Ahmose I. She had two children-Amenhotep I and Aahhotep II, who wed each other and had the Princess Aahmes. ... An excavation assistant beside the 2. ... The Eighteenth Dynasty is perhaps the most famous of all the dynasties of Ancient Egypt. ...

They were the parents of Tiye, wife of Amenhotep III and mother of Akhenaten. Theory also suggests them as possible parents of Ay. Tiy (c. ... Amenhotep III, Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin The northern Colossus of Memnon Amenhotep III (called Nibmu(`w)areya in the Amarna letters) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the XVIIIth dynasty. ... Bust of Pharaoh Akhenaten. ... nomen or birth name Kheperkheprure Ay (occasionally Ai) was the penultimate Pharaoh of Ancient Egypts 18th dynasty. ...

Together with her husband, Tjuyu was buried in the Valley of the Kings, in KV46, where their largely unpillaged remains were found in 1905. Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings, or Wadi el-Muluk (وادي الملوك) in Arabic, is a valley in Egypt where tombs were built for the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom, the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties. ... Tomb KV46 in the Valley of the Kings is the tomb of Yuya and his wife Thuya, the parents of Queen Tiye, the wife of Amenhotep III. It was the discovered in February 1905, and until the discovery of Tutankhamuns tomb it was the richest tomb found in the... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

External Links

• [1] - Yuya and Tjuyu tomb gallery.
• [2] - Image of Yuya's and Tjuyu's mummy can be found on this page.