After Tutankhamun died without an heir, his widow Ankhesenamun wrote a letter to the Hittite king Šuppiluliuma I asking him to send one of his sons to marry her. Šuppiluliuma sent Zannanza, who died before he could marry her.

What if he'd survived and married King Tut's widow?
 
After Tutankhamun died without an heir, his widow Ankhesenamun wrote a letter to the Hittite king Šuppiluliuma I asking him to send one of his sons to marry her. Šuppiluliuma sent Zannanza, who died before he could marry her.

What if he'd survived and married King Tut's widow?

Well, based on my knowledge of the Hittites and Egyptians (an outgrowth of studies on the Dark Age Phoenicians) this will go over as bout as well as that attempt to install a Hohenzollern on the throne of Spain in the 1860s or a Saljuq on the Eastern Roman throne, if you catch my drift.
 
Well, based on my knowledge of the Hittites and Egyptians (an outgrowth of studies on the Dark Age Phoenicians) this will go over as bout as well as that attempt to install a Hohenzollern on the throne of Spain in the 1860s or a Saljuq on the Eastern Roman throne, if you catch my drift.

There is a precedent for foreigners on the throne of Egypt. He also has a good amount of legitimacy cause his wife is royalty.
 

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Ay and/or Horemheb likely conspire to have Zannanza murdered the moment he arrives. Interestingly enough Horemheb was meant to be Tutankhamun's successor due to the latter's inability to produce an heir but he was likely outmaneuvered by Ay who ended up marrying Ankhesenamun. Also neither advisor ended up producing an heir, leading to his second-in-command Ramses I taking power. Let's say Zannanza is able to out-manuever both of them and use the other to solidify control; likely it would be Horemheb who seemed to have had an antagonistic relationship to Ay. Zannazana lives long enough to produces an heir with Ankhesenamun; Horemheb serves as regent and through the boy (call him Amenhotep V) maintains a steady course for Egypt. No 19th dynasty though maybe this Amenhotep V would marry into the Ramessides.

Due to Zannanza and Ankhesenamun's child being half-Hittite, expansion will be turned westward against the barbarian tribes of Libya and beat the Greeks into settling the coast. Relations will be cordial but there will likely be a confrontation at some point over Syria.
 
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There is a precedent for foreigners on the throne of Egypt. He also has a good amount of legitimacy cause his wife is royalty.

I know. I was referring to the two states' long history of warfare. I don't know much about the relations during this time, but I find it unlikely that they would allow a foreign member of the ancient enemy race on their throne.
 
I know. I was referring to the two states' long history of warfare. I don't know much about the relations during this time, but I find it unlikely that they would allow a foreign member of the ancient enemy race on their throne.

Hittite-Egyptian relations weren't sour at the time. The pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty frequently married Hittite princesses. They started to go downhill as a direct consequence of Zannanza's death.
 
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