the women of Egypt were also very powerful. “Nefertari, who’s name means beloved, was Ramses the second’s favorite spouse. The Pharaoh was considered to be a God and the Queen was considered ...

A team of international scientists now say the gams likely belong to the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertari, second wife of the pharaoh Ramses II. Nefertari, known for her active role in foreign ...

who ruled Egypt for a few years right after the reign of King Tutankhamen, during the 18th Dynasty. This artifact was found, rather mysteriously, in the lavish tomb of Queen Nefertari, one of the ...

In 1904, the pioneering Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli cracked open a tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Queens. The crypt, which had been lost for millennia, showed signs of long-ago ...

QUEEN Nefertari — wife of Egypt’s greatest pharaoh — was a great beauty. But her newly identified remains show she suffered in her old age. A pair of mummified legs have long been a part of ...

As an intimate counselor to her husband, Ahmose Nefertari played a leading political role in the building of a reunified Egypt during their son Amenhotep I’s reign, consolidating the family’s ...

(Inside one of Egypt’s biggest royal weddings.) Ramses II showed a clear predilection for Nefertari, devotion worthy of a great love story. When he built the great temple of Abu Simbel ...

The Supreme Council of Antiquities announced that it is studying the possibility of reopening the tomb of Queen Nefertari on the West Bank of Luxor for visitors, as part of the Ministry of Tourism and ...

"Boat with Four Figures" is on view in the New Orleans Museum of Art's third-floor African Art gallery, complementing the traveling exhibition "Queen Nefertari’s Egypt," on view through July 17.

These were carved out of mountains in southern Egypt and were constructed for Ramesses and Nefertari. But the building did not end there. Almost every temple in Egypt was redecorated or rebuilt.

Nefertiti was one of the most famous women of ancient Egypt alongside Cleopatra, Hatshepsut and Nefertari. Some say she even ruled as pharaoh. But her mummy and tomb have never been found.