Smenkhkare

Smenkhkare (sometimes spelled Smenkhare or Smenkare and meaning Vigorous is the Soul of Ra) was an ephemeral Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh (1335-1334 BCE) of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, of whom very little is known for certain. Believed by a growing number of experts to be the mummy found in KV55, he is thought to be a younger son of Amenhotep III and queen Tiye, and therefore a younger brother of Akhenaten. While he was traditionally seen as one of Akhenaten's immediate successors, today some Egyptologists such as Aidan Dodson consider him to be the immediate predecessor of Neferneferuaten and a junior co-regent of Akhenaten who did not have an independent reign. Neferneferuaten would then have been the immediate predecessor of Tutankhamun. He is assumed to be a close, male relative of Amenhotep III and Akhenaten (either by blood or marriage).