What happened to all of Ankhesenamens sisters?
Meritaten died shortly before or after Smenkhkare of unknown causes. She would have been in her late teens/early twenties. Meketaten died somewhere between Year 12 – 14 of Akhenaten, either of plague or during childbirth. She was about 11 or 12. Nefernefruaten ta-Sherit was still alive when Meketaten died, it seems, because she is shown mourning the loss of her sister. We don’t know what happens to her. Nefernefrure may have died before Meketaten, but again, we just don’t know. Setepenre was quite possibly the first Amarna princess to die, before Meketaten. If you are getting hung up on some of these Egyptian words or terms used at this site, trying visiting the The Amarna Glossary. One more tool from the helpful folks at Ankhesenamen’s Palace!
