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The Valley of the Queens was known anciently as Ta-Set-Neferu, which has a double meaning of "The Place of Beauty" and/or "the Place of the Royal Children". [1] Excavation of the tombs at the Valley of the Queens was pioneered by Ernesto Schiaparelli and Francesco Ballerini in the early 1900s. [2]
The following tombs are located in the Valley of the Three Pits, and the Valley of the Rope. Both of these valleys lie north of the main valley, and are associated with the Valley of the Queens. QV92, 93, and 97 are located in the latter of these two, while the former contains the rest.
Articles relating to the Valley of the Queens, a site in Egypt, where the wives of pharaohs were buried in ancient times. Pages in category "Valley of the Queens" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Queen Catherine then made Chenonceau her own favourite residence, adding a new series of gardens. View from the northeast showing the chapel and the library As Regent of France, Catherine spent a fortune on the château and on spectacular nighttime parties.
The Valley of the Kings, [a] also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, [b] [2] is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and powerful nobles under the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. [3] [4]
Queen Tanodjmy's tomb in the Valley of the Queens was entered and studied by Lepsius in 1844, and documented in his Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. [2] Lepsius misread the queen's name as Tahemy (tʒḥmy) and did not notice her title of King's Wife, recording her merely as King's Daughter and Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Tomb KV60 is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt.It was discovered by Howard Carter in 1903, and re-excavated by Donald P. Ryan in 1989. It is one of the more perplexing tombs of the Theban Necropolis, due to the uncertainty over the identity of one female mummy found there (KV60A).
Meritamen was buried at QV68 in the Valley of the Queens. The tomb of Meritamen was described by Lepsius. An interesting scene in the tomb shows Meritamen consecrating cloth-boxes to Osiris and Hathor. The inscriptions identify the Queen as The Osiris, King's Daughter, Great Royal Wife, Lady of Both Lands, Merytamen, may she live.