Friday, March 04, 2005
march is women's history month
i thought maybe i'll post something about a famous woman in history every day. it's gonna be real short though, so we can all learn something really interesting about famous women in history quickly. except i already missed three days. so let's make up for those now:
march 1
Nefertiti
-Her name, meaning "the beautiful (or perfect) woman has come," prompts some scholars to think that Nefertiti traveled to Egypt from a foreign land. Others theorize she was an Egyptian royal by birth. Still others think it unlikely that she was of royal blood, but that her father was a high government official, a man named Ay, who went on to become pharaoh after Tutankhamen (and, incidentally, may have had a hand in the boy king's death!).
-Queen of Egypt ("co-regent") with Pharoah Akhenaten, 1352-1136BC
-unusually high status, and started a practice of monotheism, only worshipping the sun god and apparently outlawed polytheism.
-something went wrong during that time and she had tons of enemies.
-her mummy has never been found.
i thought maybe i'll post something about a famous woman in history every day. it's gonna be real short though, so we can all learn something really interesting about famous women in history quickly. except i already missed three days. so let's make up for those now:
march 1
Nefertiti
-Her name, meaning "the beautiful (or perfect) woman has come," prompts some scholars to think that Nefertiti traveled to Egypt from a foreign land. Others theorize she was an Egyptian royal by birth. Still others think it unlikely that she was of royal blood, but that her father was a high government official, a man named Ay, who went on to become pharaoh after Tutankhamen (and, incidentally, may have had a hand in the boy king's death!).
-Queen of Egypt ("co-regent") with Pharoah Akhenaten, 1352-1136BC
-unusually high status, and started a practice of monotheism, only worshipping the sun god and apparently outlawed polytheism.
-something went wrong during that time and she had tons of enemies.
-her mummy has never been found.
