On a fragment of the Eighteenth Dynasty entry in Egypt's Turin King List, the name of a queen has been completely chiseled away. Why was she erased so utterly, her statues destroyed, her inscriptions smoothed over, and her name removed from prayers? The answer is hidden in three places: the clay tablet of her letter to the Hittite king, asking him to send her a husband, discovered in the archives at Hattusa; the letter written by the Hittite prince Zannanza's scribe before the prince was ambushed and killed on his way to Thebes, now held at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations; and an edict issued ten years after Tutankhamun's death by Horemheb, the pharaoh who rose from the ranks of ordinary guardsmen, suppressed rebellions, and ultimately usurped the throne. It states explicitly:
"The names of all who bewitched the previous dynasty shall fall with Aten's solar disk and never be seen again."
