When Ramesses II was still young, he met Nefertari, a woman who would rise from noble origins to become Egypt’s Great Royal ...

The death of Nefertari left Ramesses II devastated, a grief still visible in the poetry and imagery carved into her tomb in the Valley of the Queens, considered among the most beautiful ever created ...

During his extraordinary 66-year reign, Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II was famous for his battlefield exploits, his expansion of the Egyptian kingdom and his reproductive prowess, having fathered nearly ...

However, the Abu Simbel Temples were more than a testament to rare royal love - they were a carefully crafted religious and political statement, through which Ramses II sought to immortalize his name ...

The “Queen Nefertari’s Egypt” exhibition has arrived at the Portland Art Museum. The exhibit gives visitors a window into the lives and roles that Egyptian royal women played between 1292 and 1189 B.C ...

If you have a chance to head to the Portland Art Museum before Jan. 16, you can discover the world of Queen Nefertari, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II, in an exhibit titled “Queen ...

Move over, Nefertiti! Queen Nefertari tells her story in “Queen Nefertari’s Egypt,” now on view at the Kimbell Art Museum through March 14. This exhibition explores Egypt’s New Kingdom period (c. 1529 ...

Despite a very shaky start, Ramesses II (reigned c1279 - 1212 BC) used diplomacy, a massive building program and endless propaganda to become the greatest pharaoh of the New Kingdom, Ancient Egypt's ...

A team of international archaeologists believe a pair of mummified legs on display in an Italian museum may belong to Egyptian Queen Nefertari – the favorite wife of the pharaoh Ramses II. A team of ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Queen Nefertari's Egypt, on view March 18-July 17, 2022. As the favorite wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II (reigned 1279-13 BCE), Queen Nefertari had ...

Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City helped scan the remains of a queen for an upcoming museum exhibit. For the first time ever, the mummified remains, believed to belong to Egyptian Queen Nefertari, ...

Bone fragments thought to have belonged to the famous ancient Egyptian queen get the royal scientific treatment. You could say the findings have legs. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the ...