britbrat18 wrote:I'm watching The Mummy Returns, and I remember when I was little my Dad always called Anck Su Namun, Anuck Sailor Moon, to make me laugh, cause I was a huge(and still kinda am) Sailor Moon fan. The name ended up sticking, because he just walked by and called her that again. XD
That's Ahnk-sen-amun. (or Ahken-es-sunamen, depends on your interpretation of the hieroglyphics) The writers used the actual name of the wife of Tut-ahnk-amen for the name for their fictional princess. She's very tragic actually, the marriage seems to have been a love match between the two children of the Royal House (Tut was her half brother, this was VERY common in the Egyptian Royal Families, to marry a half-sibling) and she was the daughter of Nefertiti and Ahnkenaten. When Tut died (and the verdict now is that he was not murdered, it was a tragic accident compounded by some genetic/medical problems) she was left alone at the mercy of the court. She sent letters to many of the neighboring kings; the one she sent to King Suppiluliuma of the Hittites reads in part: "My husband has died and I have no son. They say about you that you have many sons. You might give me one of your sons to become my husband. I would not wish to take one of my subjects as a husband... I am afraid." Shortly after this, she was forced to marry the Vizier, Ay, and vanishes from history. She was right to be afraid as she was probably murdered.