The first female conspiracy in ancient Egypt

A woman is a woman of every age and time. When she neglects, she kills. And the fact that some kings took more than one wife simultaneously had caused many problems at times, and that was concerning the inheritance of the throne. Every wife aspired to have her son crowned King of the country after his father. Soon a bitter struggle begins when one of the wives realizes that the king has chosen another wife’s son as crown prince. Hence, she begins immediately to plot a plot in which the king who sits on the throne is toppled with the help of her supporters from the palace harem and his staff. This type occurred in the Sixth Dynasty, recorded on a limestone plaque found in Abydos and preserved in the Egyptian Museum.

King Bibi the First accused his wife, the Queen, of plotting against the king. As for the true reasons for this conspiracy, it is still mysterious. When the king wanted to investigate this case, he entrusted to me one of the figures of his time. When Onni recounted his life history and various actions in the service of the kings of this family, he referred to this conspiracy, saying :

When there was a secret prosecution in the royal harem against the Great Queen Ametz, His Majesty allowed me to go to her to listen to the case alone without the presence of any minister or employee, I alone and that was due to my competence and because His Majesty trusted me. I am the one who wrote the case alone with One judge, even though my job was (the supervisor of the loss). It had never happened before that someone like me showed me the secret of the royal harem. Still, His Majesty made me acquainted with it because I was great with His Majesty (in the heart of His Majesty) more than any employee, noble or servant.

From this text, it becomes clear that the king assigned Unni to look into this important cause, which had not happened before because Unni only held one of the small judicial positions. He was supposed to entrust this type of case to the minister as the chief judge, but it seems that the minister was involved in the plot that may have occurred in the twenty-first year of the king’s reign.