Word: nefertari
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...Hittite princesses were Ramesses' seventh and eighth wives; he had taken his first two, Nefertari and Istnofret, at least a decade before he ascended to the throne. Then there was also a harem. "If he got tired of huntin', shootin', rootin' and tootin'," says Liverpool's Kitchen, "he could wander through the garden and blow a kiss at one of these ladies." By the time he took over from Seti, Ramesses had at least five sons and two daughters. One of Istnofret's sons was Merneptah, Ramesses' 13th boy, who eventually succeeded him (the older ones are presumed to have...
...choice in their marriage partners, women in the royal families of ancient Egypt were generally considered the equals of men. Two of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, in fact, belong to the female rulers Hatshepsut and Twosret. Huge statues of Ramesses' first and most important wife Nefertari stand next to those of the pharaoh at Abu Simbel, attesting to her significance...
...ancient Egyptian tomb of Nefertari is gloriously restored...
...Nefertari's tomb, lost for three millenniums, was discovered in 1904. Its treasures had been looted, probably in antiquity, and its wall paintings had deteriorated. By 1940, in fact, the decay had become so severe that Egyptian authorities closed the tomb to the public. It seemed to have become yet another endangered landmark of ancient Egyptian civilization. But in 1986 the Egyptian Antiquities Organization and the Getty Conservation Institute of Santa Monica, Calif., embarked on a $4 million restoration project. The dramatic results were unveiled last week. Although access to the tomb will be limited for two years to scientists...
...funerary ceiling were kept straight by strings stretched from wall to wall. In the sarcophagus chamber, conservators discovered a row of fingerprints left along a string line by a careless craftsman. In one corner, a contractor had scratched in hieroglyphics his accounting of work completed. And on one pillar, Nefertari's flesh-toned cheek is splotched with blue ceiling paint. Could it be that she died before the tomb was completed and the artisans in their haste failed to remove the blemish? Rather than a distraction from Nefertari's beauty, the imperfection serves as a bridge of human identification spanning...