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Tiye
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Tiye (c. 1398 BC – 1338 BC, also spelled Tye, Taia, Tiy and Tiyi) was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of pharaoh Akhenaten and grandmother of pharaoh Tutankhamun; her parents were Yuya and Thuya. In 2010, DNA analysis confirmed her as the mummy known as "The Elder Lady" found in the tomb of Amenhotep II (KV35) in 1898.
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Tiye was an ancient Egyptian noblewoman and consort who served as the Great Royal Wife and queen consort to Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Born in 1398 BCE in Akhmim, she was the daughter of Yuya and Tjuyu. A member of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, she was the mother of The Younger Lady, Sitamun, Iset, and Henuttaneb. She died in 1338 BCE in Thebes and was buried in KV35.
The name Tiye is also associated with a United States-based artist identified as a person. This artist has 81 listeners and 294 plays, with music tagged as darkpop and trip-hop. Additionally, an author named Mylia Tiye Mal Jaza has published 37 works, including *Middle Child* and *Breaking Every Curse*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 37
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 81
- Total plays
- 294
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Logistics management information system performance for program drugs in public health facilities of East Wollega Zone, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia
· 2018 · cited 29x
- Land suitability analysis for maize production using geospatial technologies in the Didessa watershed, Ethiopia
· 2022 · cited 28x
- Modeling land use and land cover dynamics of Bale Mountains National Park using Google Earth Engine and cellular automata–artificial neural network (CA-ANN) model
· 2025 · cited 13x
- Assessment of flood risk by using geospatial techniques in Wabi Shebele River Sub-basin, West Hararghe Zone, southeastern Ethiopia
· 2023 · cited 13x
- Physical, mechanical, and optical properties of
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starch from bulla films influenced by different glycerol concentrations and temperatures
· 2020 · cited 13x
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Key facts
- Royalty.succession
- Queen consort of Egypt
- Royalty.reign
- c. 1390 BC – 1353 BC(37–50 years)
- Royalty.reign type
- Tenure
- Royalty.image
- Ägyptisches Museum Berlin 027 detail 01.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Bust of Tiye, now in the Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin, Germany
- Royalty.spouse
- Amenhotep III
- Royalty.issue
- SitamunIsetHenuttanebNebetahThutmoseAkhenaten"The Younger Lady" (probably)Smenkhkare (possibly)Beketaten (possibly)
- Royalty.native_lang1
- Egyptian name
- Royalty.native_lang1_name1
- U33-i-i-Z4-B7
- Royalty.dynasty
- 18th of Egypt
- Royalty.father
- Yuya
- Royalty.mother
- Thuya
- Royalty.birth_date
- 1398 BC
- Royalty.birth_place
- Akhmim, Upper Egypt
- Royalty.death_date
- 1338 BC (aged 40–60 years)
- Royalty.burial_place
- Royal Tomb of Akhenaten, Amarna (original tomb)KV55, The Valley of the Kings, Thebes (reburial?)Mummy found in the KV35 royal cache (Theban Necropolis)
- Royalty.religion
- Ancient Egyptian religion
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Family and early life
- Issue
- Monuments
- Influence at court
- Burial and mummy
- Gallery
- References
- Books
- External links
Tiye (c. 1398 BC – 1338 BC, also spelled Tye, Taia, Tiy and Tiyi) was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of pharaoh Akhenaten and grandmother of pharaoh Tutankhamun; her parents were Yuya and Thuya. In 2010, DNA analysis confirmed her as the mummy known as "The Elder Lady" found in the tomb of Amenhotep II (KV35) in 1898.
==Family and early life== left|thumb|Depiction of Tiye's father Yuya in his copy of the Book of the Dead|260x260px Tiye's father, Yuya, was a non-royal, wealthy landowner from the Upper Egyptian town of Akhmim, where he served as a priest and superintendent of oxen or commander of the chariotry. Tiye's mother, Thuya, was involved in many religious cults, as her different titles attested (Singer of Hathor, Chief of the Entertainers of both Amun and Min...). Sometimes it is believed that Thuya is likely to be of royal descent.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tiye” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.