![]() ![]() Some sources consider a more accurate translation for Nefertari as "the most beautiful one", "the most beautiful of them", "the most beautiful one of them all" "the most beautiful (one) among them", "the very best", or "the most beautiful of the women". Nefertari means 'beautiful companion' and Meritmut means 'Beloved of the goddess Mut'. There are different interpretations of the meaning of the name Nefertari. Ramesses also constructed a temple for her at Abu Simbel next to his colossal monument there. Her lavishly decorated tomb, QV66, is one of the largest and most spectacular in the Valley of the Queens. ![]() She used these skills in her diplomatic work, corresponding with other prominent royals of the time. She was highly educated and able to both read and write hieroglyphs, a very rare skill at the time. 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. They have successfully completed the works of the temples of Abu Simbel.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. Temple of Amun at Karnak and the Temple of Osiris at Abydos. The Valley of the Queens, his own tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the The construction of the temples of Abu Simbel, the tomb of Nefertari in Signing of the peace Alliance with the Hittite King Hattusili. It began its first military campaigns in Asia. He moved the capital from Thebes to Tanis. Subsequently, internal decline would have put an end to the power of beyond Egypt's borders. ![]() Merenpta, and Ramsés III, were forced to take a defensive policy to Was without doubt the last great Pharaoh, since his successors, He died almost centenarian and his Mummy, discovered in 1881, is an old man, of elongated face and prominent nose. So long that he survived many of his descendants, including hisįavorite son Khaem-uaset, renowned magician and high priest of Ptah. The great, had, on the other hand, a strange destiny: its existence was His reign corresponds, according to some historians argue the first "exodus" of the Jews. His feat in Kadesh was sung in one of the brightest examples of Egyptian epic poetry: the Poem of Kadesh, lavishly engraved at temples. Amid the confusion, Ramses loaded against them and turned defeat into a relative victory. Believing to have won the battle, the Hittites attempted to the assault on the fortress of Pharaoh to distribute it. Hittites installed there left him to move to the Orontes River, at theįoot of the ramparts of Kadesh, where he was surrounded by the enemyĪrmy. Operations, allowing him to invade Syria, as had his father with One aimed at subjecting Palestine, in order to obtain a base of Valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and already in the fourth Their first militaryĬampaigns went to recover the fertile lands of «entre rios», in the To situate the Royal residence near the point of greatest danger to theĮmpire, bordering on Asia. The transfer of the capital from Thebes to Tanis in the delta, in order ![]()
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