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Nefertari, also known as Nefertari Meritmut, was an Egyptian queen and the first of the Great Royal Wives (or principal wives) of Ramesses the Great. She is one of the best known Egyptian queens, among such women as Cleopatra , Nefertiti , and Hatshepsut , and one of the most prominent not known or thought to have reigned in her own right .
In the Valley of the Queens, Nefertari's tomb once held the mummified body and representative symbolisms of her, consistent with most Egyptian tombs of the period. Now, everything had been looted except for two thirds of the 5,200 square feet of wall paintings. For what still remains, these wall paintings characterized Nefertari's character.
Nefertari was a queen of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, the first Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose IV. [1] Her origins are unknown, it is likely that she was a commoner. On several depictions she and queen mother Tiaa are depicted as goddesses accompanying Thutmose.
Nefertiti (/ ˌ n ɛ f ər ˈ t iː t i / [3]) (c. 1370 – c. 1330 BC) was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.Nefertiti and her husband were known for their radical overhaul of state religious policy, in which they promoted the earliest known form of monotheism, Atenism, centered on the sun disc and its direct connection to the royal household.
The temple of Hathor and Nefertari, also known as the Small Temple, was built about 100 m (330 ft) northeast of the temple of Ramesses II and was dedicated to the goddess Hathor and Ramesses II's chief consort, Nefertari. This was in fact the second time in ancient Egyptian history that a temple was dedicated
The mummified leg bones were first discovered in 1904 inside Queen Nefertari's royal tomb in Egypt. Archaeologists had always assumed they were the queen's, and new evidence suggests that might ...
Ahmose's consort, Queen Ahmose-Nefertari was "arguably the most venerated woman in Egyptian history, and the grandmother of the 18th Dynasty." [3] She was deified after she died. Ahmose was succeeded by his son, Amenhotep I, whose reign was relatively uneventful. [4]
Nefertari, wife of Ramesses II Hatshepsut, wife of Thutmose II and later Pharaoh in her own right Ahmose–Nefertari, wife of Ahmose Ankhesenpepi II with her son Pepi II. The Pharaoh's wives played an important role both in public and private life, and would be a source of political and religious power. [1]