So the previous pharaoh was Akhenaten, huh. This means Kairakuten is actually Tutankhamun (King Tut), and his wife there is his half-sister Ankhesenamun.

(Incidentally, Tutankhamun's mother was also his aunt. Ancient Egyptian royalty were really into incest.)

NNescio said:

So the previous pharaoh was Akhenaten, huh. This means Kairakuten is actually Tutankhamun (King Tut), and his wife there is his half-sister Ankhesenamun.

(Incidentally, Tutankhamun's mother was also his aunt. Ancient Egyptian royalty were really into incest.)

To keep their royal bloodline pure, huh.
Don't they have something like the Westermarck effect?

OMGkillitwithfire said:

To keep their royal bloodline pure, huh.
Don't they have something like the Westermarck effect?

Well, you generally need to be raised together to trigger the Unlucky Osananajimi Westermarck effect, and it's not a rather solid hypothesis anyway (there are some evidence for it, but it is frequently argued that the effect is rooted in cultural instead of biological factors).

NNescio said:

Well, you generally need to be raised together to trigger the Unlucky Osananajimi Westermarck effect, and it's not a rather solid hypothesis anyway (there are some evidence for it, but it is frequently argued that the effect is rooted in cultural instead of biological factors).

I see.
So they were raised separately?

OMGkillitwithfire said:

I see.
So they were raised separately?

Well, I'm not sure about that, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case considering they both have different mothers.

I don't know too much on the subject, but here's a source on general childhood and royal harems in particular.

The short of it is that extended families were kept together, especially since children were often orphaned, and needed to be raised by more distant relatives. Children started work early, as early as 4 years old, and may have spent great periods of time away from home for that reason.

The pharaoh might marry a sister or the like as the Great Wife, but they also had harems, and would marry for political reasons, taking on daughters or sisters of powerful governors as wives.

Polygamy existed, but was infrequent outside of royalty, due to women having economic roles in agriculture. Like many polygamous cultures, work was segregated by gender, and grinding the grain and baking bread was a woman's job. Slaves would do the work for the rich, and slaves were, it's important to note, Egyptian citizens forced into slavery by debt (often sold as children to pay their parent's debts) who could hypothetically buy their freedom.

I also believe that, outside of infancy, children were segregated by gender, especially since they were treated as "little adults". As such, there may have been communal schooling of boys from relatives and even servants, but they wouldn't see the girls in their family until they were "of age" to marry, which for most boys meant "could afford to start a family", and for girls meant "has started menstruation".