ABSTRACT
Ȧmenḥetep III was succeeded by his son by his beloved wife Ti, who came to the throne under the name of Ȧmenḥetep IV. He reigned about seventeen years, and died probably before he was thirty. The accuracy of the latter part of this statement depends upon the evidence derived from the mummy of a young man which was found in the Tomb of Queen Ti, and is generally believed to be that of Ȧmenḥetep IV. It is thought that this mummy was taken from a royal tomb at Tall al-‘Amârnah in mistake for that of Ti, and transported to Thebes, where it was buried as her mummy. Dr. Elliot Smith examined the skeleton, and decided that it was that of a man 25 or 26 years of age, “without excluding the possibility that he may have been several years older.” His evidence 1 is very important, for he adds, “The cranium, however, exhibits in an unmistakable manner the distortion characteristic of a condition of hydrocephalus.” So then if the skeleton be that of Ȧmenḥetep IV, the king suffered from water on the brain; and if he was 26 years old when he died he must have begun to reign at the age of nine or ten. But there is the possibility that he did not begin to reign until he was a few years older.
