Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting story of her ascent from the realm of death toward the light of Re.

QUEEN Nefertari — wife of Egypt’s greatest pharaoh — was a great beauty. But her newly identified remains show she suffered in her old age. A pair of mummified legs have long been a part of an ...

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 ...

When Queen Nefertari died some 3,000 years ago, she was buried in an elaborate tomb adorned with beautiful, intricate wall paintings. Today, due to conservation concerns, the tomb, located in the ...

Nefertari was the royal wife of Pharaoh Ramses II, and her beauty was unmatched. So was her tomb—the walls are painted with beautiful images of the queen and a starry sky on the ceiling. But the ...

Little is known of Nefertari, the first chief queen of Ramesses the Great, but her stunning tomb is a testament to the high regard in which her husband held her. Like his predecessors, Ramesses II had ...

“This was definitely a life-changing project in many ways,” says Julián Zugazagoitia, the director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, about the restoration of Queen Nefertari’s tomb in Egypt.

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 ...