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Most Queens included on this page did not rule as Pharaohs. However, some did rule in their own right following the deaths of their husbands. Four Queens from the Native Egyptian dynasties are known for certain to have ruled as Female Pharaohs: Sobekneferu (c. 1806-1802 BC) (Possibly wife of Amenemhat IV)
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.
Ancient Egyptian queens consort (24 C, 2 P) F. Female pharaohs (2 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Queens of ancient Egypt"
Queens of ancient Egypt (2 C, 1 P) + Cultural depictions of Egyptian queens (4 C) C. Queens consort of Egypt (1 C, 4 P) R. Egyptian queens regnant (1 C, 2 P)
Neithhotep or Neith-hotep (fl. c. 3050 BC) was an ancient Egyptian queen consort who lived and ruled during the early First Dynasty.She was once thought to be a male ruler: her outstandingly large mastaba and the royal serekh surrounding her name on several seal impressions previously led Egyptologists and historians to the erroneous belief that she might have been an unknown king. [2]
Isetnofret (or Isis-nofret or Isitnofret) (Ancient Egyptian: "the beautiful Isis") was one of the Great Royal Wives of Pharaoh Ramesses II and was the mother of his successor, Merneptah. She was one of the most prominent of the royal wives, along with Nefertari , and was the chief queen after Nefertari's death (around the 24th year of the ...
In Ancient Egyptian texts, the "Two Ladies" (Ancient Egyptian: nbtj, sometimes anglicized Nebty) was a religious epithet for the goddesses Wadjet and Nekhbet, two deities who were patrons of the ancient Egyptians and worshiped by all after the unification of its two parts, Lower Egypt, and Upper Egypt. When the two parts of Egypt were joined ...
Some Egyptologists have speculated that Mutnedjmet is identical to Nefertiti's sister Mutbenret/Mutnodjmet, the reading of whose name is disputed. [4] As noted by Ian Mladjov, there is ambiguity in use of the "nedjem" (nḏm) and "bener" (bnr) signs in the name of Queen Tanodjmy, which is certainly to be read this way, with a phonetic complement confirming this reading, "nedjem," for what is ...