Tjuyu

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Tjuyu

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The mummy of Tjuyu (right) with Yuya (left)
The mummy of Tjuyu (right) with Yuya (left)

Tjuyu (sometimes transliterated as Thuya or Thuyu) was an Egyptian noblewoman and descendant of Ahmose-Nefertari. She was the wife of Yuya, a powerful Egyptian courtier of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. She was involved in many religious cults, and her titles included 'Singer of Hathor,' and Chief of the Entertainers of both Amun and Min.[1]

Yuya and Thuya had a daughter named Tiye who became Queen of Egypt as the chief royal wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Yuya and Thuya also had a son named Anen, who carried the titles Chancellor of Lower Egypt, Second Prophet of Amun, sm-priest of Heliopolis and Divine Father.

Together with her husband, Tjuyu was buried in the Valley of the Kings, in KV46, where their largely unpillaged remains were found in 1905. It was the best-preserved tomb discovered before that of Tutankhamun.

Gilded cartonnage mask of Thuya in the Cairo Museum.
Gilded cartonnage mask of Thuya in the Cairo Museum.

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