The succession of kings at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt is a matter of great debate and confusion.
There are very few contemporary records that can be relied upon, due to the nature of the Amarna Period and the reign of Akhenaten and his successors and possible co-regents.
However, the coregency theory has been called into question by the December 2012 announcement of the discovery of a Year 16 III Akhet day 15 inscription dated explicitly to Akhenaten's reign which mentions, in the same breath, the presence of Queen Nefertiti--or the "Great Royal Wife, His Beloved, Lady of the Two Lands, Neferneferuaten Nefertiti"–in its third line.
[2] The badly legible five line text, found in a limestone quarry at Deir el-Bersha "mentions a building project in Amarna"–Egypt's political capital under Akhenaten and was deciphered and published by Athena Van der Perre in a 2014 article.
The royal line of the dynasty died out with Tutankhamun, for two foetuses found buried in his tomb are likely to have been his daughters, according to a 2008 investigation.