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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.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.
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.
Nefertari, wife of Ramesses II Hatshepsut, wife of Thutmose II and later Pharaoh in her own right Ahmose-Nefertari, wife of Ahmose Ankhesenpepi II with her son Pepi II. The Pharaoh's wives played an important role both in public and private life, and would be a source of political and religious power. [1]
He was married to Iryet, daughter of a Syrian captain, Benanath. [12] Mentuemwaset (“Mentu in Thebes”) Siamun (“Son of Amon”) (Ramesses)-Siptah (“Son of Ptah”) was probably the son of a secondary wife called Sutererey. A relief of them is in the Louvre. A Book of the Dead, which was probably his, is now in Florence. Unknown
Nefertari is the daughter and orphan of Queen Mutnodjmet and General Nakhtmin, niece of Queen Nefertiti and Pharaoh Ankhenaten. The book is told from the perspective of Nefertari and is fiction but does deal with many historical events during the beginning of Rameses II reign and many historical people giving readers a view of what life and ...
Nefertiti was the queen consort and great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Thutmose III was the sixth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. Under his reign, Egypt's Kingdom reached its greatest expansion, from Kush in the south to the Hittite Empire in the north.
Amun-her-khepeshef married Nefertari II. She was the daughter of Amun-her-khepeshef's father and also possibly the daughter of his mother, Queen Nefertari, [2] making his wife his own sister or half-sister. Together they bore a son called Seti. Amun-her-khepeshef died approximately 25 years into his father's reign. [3]
Akhenaten was married to Nefertiti, his Great Royal Wife. The exact timing of their marriage is unknown, but inscriptions from the pharaoh's building projects suggest that they married either shortly before or after Akhenaten took the throne. [10]