Jim, Sometimes the mailing list gets quiet. At these times it is fun to talk with those who share the same ancestors you do. Most of us already know our Ramey ancestors. If something comes in that requires serious research, we are capable of doing just that. The subject of Queen Nefertiti came up. Here is serious research. Nefertiti means beautiful woman. She was said to have been the most beautiful woman of ancient history. She married the very strange looking Pharaoh, Akhenaten. He was very tall with a long narrow face. He was extremely thin but had a pot belly. He did look very alien. Some Scientist say he may have had a serious disease because of intermarriages within the Royal Family to maintain the royal bloodline, which passed through the women. He and Nefertiti left the captial of Egypt and build a beautiful city in the desert. It was called the City of the Horizon. In this city, only one god was worshipped. He was the Sun God. The Pharaoh ordered all other Egyptian Gods abandond. He proclaimed that there was only one god. Most Egyptians did not like this. After 17 years of rule, Akhenaten died. His successor was his brother, Semenkhkare, who died three years later. Here is when Tutankhamen ( King Tut ) assumes the throne at the age of about 9 and died when he was 18. With Tutankharmen, and the help of the priesty establishment, all traces of the Sun God were destroyed. The City of the Horizon fell into ruin. The old gods were brought back and worshipped again for the rest of Ancient Egyptian history, which ended with Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt. As for Nefertiti, she struggled to hang onto the throne and keep the one god religion going after her husband's death. But she was out numbered by her enemies. She soon disappeared for histroy. We have no ideal what happened to her. The Ancient Priests had all images of her destroyed that they could find. She doesn't even have a tomb that we know of. She just disappeared. With the passing of Akhenaten and Nefertiti and their one god religion, it would be thousands of years later before a one god religion would be introduced to mankind again.. That happened with the Hebrews. This time, it lasted. Lois Indiana