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The dakhamunzu incident
A bust of Nefertiti, on display at the Egyptian Museum in [[Berlin]], is a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian art.
A bust of Nefertiti, on display at the Egyptian Museum in [[Berlin]], is a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian art.
==The dakhamunzu incident==
The Hittite records for the period describe how the widow of an Egyptian king sent to the Hittite court to request the hand of a prince in marriage. The queen in question is referred to only as ''dakhamunzu'', which means "the king's wife." A demarche from the reign of Amenhotep III boasts that no Egyptian prince had ever married a foreigner, so this was apparently unprecedented.<ref>Ludwig D. Morenze and Ludz Popko, ''A Companion to Ancient Egypt'' (2010), p. 114.</ref>
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