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Painted scenes from the tomb of Queen Nefertari, Great Royal Wife of Ramses II, and exterior of the smaller temple at Abu Simbel, dedicated to Nefertari and Hathor. Dynasty XIX.
Valley of Queens (QV66), and Abu Simbel (resp.), Egypt
“A temple of great and mighty monuments, for the Great Royal Wife Nefertari Meryetmut, for whose sake the very sun does shine, given live and beloved.”
— Kitchen, Rammeside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated. Vol. II, 1996.
Ramses was the third pharaoh in the 19th Dynasty, an architect and military leader who restored land and fought the Libyans and Hittites. He is the greatest of the Egyptian pharaohs, and may have been the pharaoh of the Biblical Moses. According to the historian Manetho, Ramses ruled for 66 years. He was buried in the Valley of the Kings. Nefertari was Ramses’ most famous Great Royal Wife. Ramses fought the famous chariot Battle at Kadesh against the Hittites in what is now Syria. The outcome of this relatively well-recorded battle is unclear. It may have been a draw. Ramses retreated, but saved his army. Inscriptions — at Abydos, Temple of Luxor, Karnak, Abu Simbel and the Ramesseum — are from an Egyptian perspective. There are only bits of writing from the Hittite, including correspondence between Ramses II and the Hittite leader Hattusili III, but the Hittites also claimed victory.
There were many colossal statues of Ramses throughout Egypt. He had the Ramesseum built at Thebes as his funerary temple as well as other temples, including 6 in Nubia, two of which are at Abu Simbel. Building temples was a luxury that could be done only when Egypt was prosperous, so the large number attests to the success of his reign. Pi-Ramesse is the name of a home he had built for his family in the Nile delta. He also produced more than a hundred offspring with a suitably large number of wives.
I don’t think anyone will every truly appreciate the love I have for the 19th dynasty.
Seriously guys. It rivals my passion for the 18th dynasty (Akenaten!! And Hatshepsut yo! She was a BAMF.) AND THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING.
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Nefertari was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Great.
NEFERTARIIII :D
This image has been my phone’s lock screen background for like….a year.
Fun fact of the day: My screen name is directly related to Nefertari :D
Nefertari is one of the main reasons I’ve decided to study Egyptology. If her tomb wasn’t closed off to the public I’d probably be living inside it. SO MANY PRETTIES.
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Nefertiti, which means “a beautiful woman has come” (aka Neferneferuaten) was queen of Egypt and wife of the pharaoh Akhenaten/Akhenaton. Earlier, before his religious change, Nefertiti’s husband was known as Amenhotep IV. He ruled from the middle of the 14th century B.C.
Akhenaten was the famous heretic king who moved the capital of the royal family from Thebes to Amarna and worshiped the sun god Aten (Aton). The new religion, often considered monotheistic, featured the royal couple, Akhenaten and Nefertiti, in place of other gods in a triad of divinities.
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Cairo, May 29 (IANS/AKI) Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old tomb in Egypt that contains a sarcophagus inscribed with ancient funeral texts as well as ritual objects.
“It is the first time in many years that such a well-preserved tomb has been unearthed,” said Muhammad…
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THAT IS MY FAVOURITE CLOTHING COLOURRRRR
I WANT THIS DRESSSSSSS
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Wonder Woman cosplay by Sarah Scott
Clever take on the Wonder Woman design. Unlike the weird bathing suit usually seen in the comics, this actually looks like something a Greek-styled fighter would wear.
I found some additional photos here: http://www.themarysue.com/sarah-scott-wonder-woman-cosplay/
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