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Means "the most beautiful"
in Egyptian. This was the name of an Egyptian queen of the New Kingdom, the
favourite wife of Rameses II.
Little is known about the queens, but there are exceptions. Ahmose-Nefertari,
the wife, and sister, of the first pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty, King
Ahmose, became a very powerful queen. She was the first in the history of
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| Temple built by Rameses
II to honour Hathor and Nefertari. |
Statues of Rameses dressed
as Horus and Nefertari dressed as Hathor. |
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| Nefertari,
the beautiful wife of Rameses the Great, was an exceptional woman who played
an important role in state and religious affairs. Loved by her people, she
was called "mistress of two lands", a title normally reserved for the king,
the "lord of two lands". She died in her late forties and was
buried
in a magnificent house of eternity in the Valley
of the Queens. The portraits on the walls of
Nefertari's tomb depict
her as an elegant and radiant young woman. The tomb's dazzling paintings,
a world treasure, have been
restored by The Getty Conservation
Institute because they had been
damaged by centuries of water seepage. |
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| The goddess Isis leads
Queen Nefertari in the land of the gods. Nefertari wears a vulture headdress,
which identifies her as a royal wife. |
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Nefertari makes an offering
to Isis. She is wearing a white robe in the New Kingdom style with a red
belt tied at a high waistline. |
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