# 1330s BC

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The **1330s BC** is a [decade](/source/List_of_decades) that lasted from 1339 BC to 1330 BC.

## Events and trends

- [1336 BC](/source/1336_BC): [Pharaoh](/source/Pharaoh) [Akhenaten](/source/Akhenaten) of [Egypt](/source/Egypt) names [Smenkhkare](/source/Smenkhkare) as a co-ruler.[1]
- 1336 BC: [Tutankhaten](/source/Tutankhaten) becomes [Pharaoh](/source/Pharaoh) of [Egypt](/source/Egypt) and marries [Ankhesenpaaten](/source/Ankhesenpaaten), his half sister and cousin as well as a daughter of his predecessor [Akhenaten](/source/Akhenaten).[2]
- c. 1336 BC: [Amarna](/source/Amarna) period in [Ancient Egypt](/source/Ancient_Egypt) ends.
- 1336 BC – [1327 BC](/source/1327_BC): Inner [coffin](/source/Coffin) of [Tutankhamun](/source/Tutankhamun)'s [sarcophagus](/source/Sarcophagus), from the tomb of [Tutankhamun](/source/Tutankhamun), [Valley of the Kings](/source/Valley_of_the_Kings) near [Deir el-Bahri](/source/Deir_el-Bahri) is made. 18th dynasty. It is now in [Egyptian Museum](/source/Egyptian_Museum), [Cairo](/source/Cairo).
- [1331 BC](/source/1331_BC): [Pharaoh](/source/Pharaoh) [Tutankhaten](/source/Tutankhaten) of [Egypt](/source/Egypt) renames himself to [Tutankhamun](/source/Tutankhamun) and abandons [Amarna](/source/Amarna), returning the capital to [Thebes](/source/Thebes,_Egypt).

## Significant people

- [1338 BC](/source/1338_BC): Queen [Tiy](/source/Tiy) of [Egypt](/source/Egypt), Chief Queen of [Amenhotep III](/source/Amenhotep_III) and [matriarch](/source/Matriarch) of the [Amarna](/source/Amarna) family, vanishes from the historical record. Presumed death.
- [1337 BC](/source/1337_BC): Queen [Nefertiti](/source/Nefertiti) of [Egypt](/source/Egypt) vanishes from the historical record. Presumed death.[3]
- [1334 BC](/source/1334_BC): Death of [Smenkhkare](/source/Smenkhkare), [Pharaoh](/source/Pharaoh) of [Egypt](/source/Egypt) and co-ruler with [Akhenaten](/source/Akhenaten). Alternative date is [1333 BC](/source/1333_BC)
- [1334 BC](/source/1334_BC): Death of [Akhenaten](/source/Akhenaten), [Pharaoh](/source/Pharaoh) of [Egypt](/source/Egypt). Alternative date is [1333 BC](/source/1333_BC)

## References

1. Fagan, Brian (2016). [*Lord and Pharaoh: Carnarvon and the Search for Tutankhamun*](https://books.google.com/books?id=C2aTDAAAQBAJ). Routledge. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-315-42512-2.

1. *Histoire de l’Égypte ancienne*. Fayard. 1988. p. PT236. ISBN 978-2-213-64001-3.

1. Dodson, Aidan (6 October 2020). [*Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife*](https://books.google.com/books?id=7mtjEAAAQBAJ). American University in Cairo Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-64903-168-6.

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