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Nefertiti (/ ˌ n ɛ f ər ˈ t iː t i / [3]) (c. 1370 – c. 1330 BC) was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.Nefertiti and her husband were known for their radical overhaul of state religious policy, in which they promoted the earliest known form of monotheism, Atenism, centered on the sun disc and its direct connection to the royal household.
QV66 is the tomb of Nefertari, the Great Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II, in Egypt 's Valley of the Queens. It was discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli (the director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin) in 1904. Nefertari, which means "beautiful companion", was Ramesses II's favorite wife; he went out of his way to make this obvious, referring to her as ...
Scene from the tomb It is believed that the second suite of three chambers (referred to as Alpha, Beta and Gamma) was used for the burial of Meketaten , Akhenaten 's second daughter. Two of the chambers (Alpha and Gamma) are decorated and depict very similar scenes: in the Alpha chamber, Akhenaten and Nefertiti bend over the inert body of a ...
The theory was first proposed by British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves, suggesting the tomb might actually be the burial place of Queen Nefertiti.
One prominent Egyptologist has theorized that Queen Nefertiti, whose regal beauty was immortalized in a bust on display in a Berlin museum, could be buried in the walls of Tut's 3,300-year-old ...
The iconic bust of Nefertiti is part of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin collection. The Nefertiti Bust is a painted stucco -coated limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. [1] It is on display in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin. The work is believed to have been crafted in 1345 BC by Thutmose because it was ...
Thutmose, also known as "The King's Favourite and Master of Works, the Sculptor Thutmose " (also spelled Djhutmose, Thutmosis, and Thutmes), was an Ancient Egyptian sculptor in the Amarna style. He flourished around 1350 BC, and is thought to have been the official court sculptor of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten in the latter part of his reign.
Early practitioner of Kemetism, association with Egyptology, author on Egyptian folklore. Spouse. Emam Abdel Meguid (married 1931/1933, separated 1935) Dorothy Louise Eady (16 January 1904 – 21 April 1981), also known as Omm Sety or Om Seti (Arabic: أم سيتي), was a British antiques caretaker and folklorist. She was keeper of the Abydos ...