Nefertari: The Mysterious Royal Wife Of Ramses II | Life Of An Egyptian Queen | Real History

oh oh [Music] yeah one of ancient Egypt's most renowned Royal women but has almost come known by non-egyptologists she was known as one of the most beautiful and intelligent Queens in the ancient world her husband built the temple for her she may have even been the power behind the pharaoh her name was nefertari the beauty of the beauties [Music] thank you but who was this mysterious woman we don't know much about her but through years of research and putting together various sources of information we can now possibly tell a more complete story of her life

[Music] foreign lived during the early 19th Dynasty she was married to Ramses II Wayne Akhenaten the heretic King died he's the one who favored one God above all others this was extremely strange for ancient Egyptians when he died his son Tutankhamun became the next king and he reinstated all of the Gods as we know from the restoration Steven I have restored what was in Ruins as monuments of an eternal age I have dispelled Injustice throughout the two lands after the untimely death from chutan Carmen his vision I became pharaoh I who had been married before

and who was the possible father of Nefertiti and mud nudge met and furthermore the possible father of [ __ ] on him I was the supposed brother of green tea grandmother of two tank armor was married to another woman named Ty their son was called nagmin int's brother would then be Enid as mentioned on their parents coffins I married Todd's sister ankis Norman and became pharaoh however the old unveiling man died almost two years later Angus and almond disappeared or died whorem head became the rightful pharaoh aurum head married his sister Moon Notch met and

that a statue made showing the sibling couple at his coronation another wife known as Armenia however both wives could not bear him children [Music] the end of the 18th Dynasty is nothing more than a mess with tut having no children and [ __ ] and hip having no children the Family Lines linearing the end [Music] you may be asking why are we having this short recap but the family line of I may come back later on in this documentary as for now we focus on who became the Pharaoh after Holm hemp Rams is the first

was of non-royal birth and was born in the former hickso's capital region of avaris on the border of Sinai and Israel his uncle married a priestess of armor and using the rank of Priestess of Armin through the family connections became friends with Hallam hemp having served in the army with Ramses the first Orem had promoted Ramses to high priest of almond and even later on to the title of busier Rams is the first result however at the time he had a son seti and a grandson Ramses II call him hepb could see a strong line

of successors within the remicide family he announced that Rams is the first would be the next Pharaoh by making him co-regent this move was to end the 18th Dynasty and starred a new lineage foreign [Music] [Music] became pharaoh said his son Ramses would have been around 10 years old at the time nefertari would be around a similar age and in only a few short years she would meet her future husband [Music] the 19th Dynasty paid particular attention to women and producing many heirs to the throne seti's wife for example was moved toy she was held

in very high esteem even into the reign of her son Ramses II had two definite children Ram season theater there is a mention of a second sister to Ramses known as Pena Mitra she is shown behind the statue of blue toy although Ramses married henler Mitchell she was not his first wife Sethi a mood toy married before he became pharaoh and this trend would follow onto Ramses and nefitari in ancient Egypt it was not uncommon for Kings to have harems of women but by the age of 12 Ramses was appointed co-regent with seti accompanying him

into several battles Ramses was given a harem on behalf of his father setting as a gift for becoming co-regent some egyptologists believed that Ramses and nefertari met in this Harin nefertari was an incredibly interesting person she was not born of Royal Blood but actually came from the household of one of the Nobles in probably in thieves which is in southern Egypt now Ramsay's family is from the Delta which is in the north so this would kind of strengthen political bonds between the North and the South and nefertari when she married Ramses when she came to

the Royal Court she was actually given as a gift um a gift of Royal marriage to the king now if this weren't strange enough seti Pharaoh seti the father of Prince Ramses did not just give nefertari to Prince Ramses he gave a number of wives uh to Prince Ramses around about the same time actually I think they're at the same time along with um a parcel of land uh and a couple of places for the women to live that was comparable to the Palace in this really unusual situation we have a group of women who

are all in our modern parlance Sister Wives moving in [Music] then I imagine would have been really interesting because Ramses is a teenager nefertari and the other women probably around the same age then nefertari becomes pregnant and actually has the first male Heir which is an important event if you're looking to secure the lineage of the kingship nefertari becomes great Royal wife we don't know if this is just because she had the first male Heir um or because of the many other really interesting and fascinating facets of her personality although due to little evidence egyptologists

are divided on how they actually met before it will remain throughout the reign of Ramsay II his most favorite wife the apple of his eye you might say despite the fact that Ramses had over eight known wives and many many more as he was the father of a hundred children boys and girls [Music] as his father and his mother had met and married before becoming Royal it is probably that Ramses of nefertari met under similar circumstances we know that Ramses and nikitari met at the age of 14 and were married at 16. well before Ramses

became pharaoh we do not know who nifitari's parents were yet she was described as a noble woman I doubt that the daughter of a noble family would have been placed into a Halloween they probably had a chance encounter where they met and became extremely in love nefertari was indeed a very well educated woman who could read and write several languages and it would not have taken her two years to have agreed to the marriage if she was arranged from the Harem nefertari came from a noble background and this would have been quite beneficial to the

Rama side family as they were not Noble in that sense themselves although some experts are divided on this opinion that she was arranged some like myself can interpret a deep intense love between the teenage Ramses and nefertari Ramsay's after all could have had whichever woman that he chose from his harina which every woman that he wanted at all so I think it was quite a special choice that he made with nefertari if you look at nefertari Stone we will see just how much uh Anonymous is the great worshiped her as a woman and mother and

a partner and through them as a couple we can see that not every marriage was based on matching for politics and for power she was truly and genuinely loved by her husband one of the many titles he gave her was the one for whom the sun shines how lovely is that and he had built in her honor at Abu symbol a temple and unusual for those times her statues are equal in size to his but yet it took him two years after a meeting nefertari to finally make the move a few years later did Ramses

through his love and respect Elevate nefertari to the status of the goddess once they were married Ram's mother had taken personal care of coaching nicotari into being the ultimate Queen we know of the close relationship between nefertari a move Play From A procession that Barbados showing sin would play with Ramses and nefertari behind [Music] it is likely that blue point would have enforced the idea of benefittari the continuing the family life to not end up in disaster like the 18th Dynasty as this became one of nefertari and Ramsay's biggest ambitions at the Great temple of

Abu Simba Ramses showed the two most important women by his side his great Royal wife nifitari and on the other side his mother [Music] 's sick children although there is the possibility of three more the sixth that we know of bear with what I try and remember the names chef power where when an F marry atum Mary ra Merit Amun and hemutawe the other three princesses that we possibly think are from nefertari are in a better way bucket Boot and sharing the same name as her mother nefertari [Music] probably one of the largest if not

the largest royal family in ancient Egyptian history Ramses is prolific he has approximately 100 children so these children of nefertares have 90 plus step siblings another really interesting facet of nefertari's home life and kind of the Dynamics of her family is that one of the original wives who came into the Royal Palace when Ramses was a prince before he had ascended to the throne I said no for it and I said no fret also Bears many children to Ramses the Great she actually has his second male Heir and she goes on to live um for

essentially nefertari's whole life now we never see this in images we always see just nefertari depicted as she served that vital semi-divine role nefertori is one of the greatest Queens of ancient Egypt known for her ravishing Beauty beloved wife of the great Pharaoh rameses II and a God's wife of our moon she eventually ascended into Divinity and was worshiped as a god herself [Music] clemences hid of several wives Who Bore him around 100 children yet his chief wife was nefertari she was given many titles including the great Royal wife we can get use the fact

that it was indeed nefertari who was giving the final say on which women Ramses could take us to his wife an inscription about her position translates as rich in affection fair and face chief of the harim of the god king master of the palace she evenly speak and her wish is fulfilled Mistress of the two lands their fertari [Music] this inscription suggests outright that she was in charge of choosing the other consorts for her husband as her full name suggests nefertari Mary moot the merry mood part of the name literally translates as the one who

has pleased the mother goddess world [Music] God's wife this title was held in high regard equivalent to that of a high priest within the temple hierarchy the responsibilities that nefertari took charge him were strict and divinely important to be in God's life of say was to be a consort of that deity some of her duties were not only of the religious type such as the procession of priests for the daily liturgies of our moon entering exclusive parts of the temple which only the purest of bodies could enter or even offering food dinner lunch and breakfast

to that deity a practice for following 200 years after Pharaoh had Shep suit by marrying a God's wife it would Elevate his own position and thus make him a God himself the white dress the golden vulture headdress are the distinctive guards of a god swipe of the Moon it also shows them offering gifts to the gods with wine incense oils fruits and Grains which were conducted by the Pharaohs or the gods wine before any rituals they would conduct a purification ceremony with water so that they were cleansed beforehand this is depicted by the pictures shown

in Tomb tt49 and the theban necropolis of Egypt was the wife of the god Armin therefore by nicotari sharing the title with mood she was instantly connected with the chief God and his wife and furthermore making Ramses the coupled with the earth and the embodiment of armid and moot [Music] nefertari is also only ever shown wearing the vulture Crown the vulture Crown was connected to the goddess moot we also know that nefertari was only ever depicted wearing very fine transparent linen this finery was only reserved for the most important woman in Egypt and Ramsay's other

wives were not given access to where this finery only not retire foreign [Music] was the highest rank of a priestess nicotari was awarded this title and would perform daily rituals at Karnak Temple dedicated to the goddamu once a year the Festival of oaklette would be held to join the two temples and the two Gods our moon and his wife moved this procession would have been led by the Earth in the embodiment of a moon and moon Ramses and nifitari it is a Luxor Temple that we can find some of the best wall inscriptions of nefitari

and some Exquisite statues of the Pharaoh with his wife supporting her husband symbolically shown at his knee even on these statues we get the idea of the beauty of nefertari as well as an idea of her fine linen dresses that delicately reveal a Regal women's soft curves foreign so far it is clear how important this queen was toward her husband but soon into Ramsay's Reign when he began campaigns against the Heat Heights would this queen be put to the ultimate test she would have to use her intellect to become the ultimate civil politician and maybe

even co-regent seti the first had trained Ramses extensively on the importance of strong military he accompanied his father into Lebanon Libya europea and the Assyrian hittite region stirring up much resentment to come back during the reign of seti's son Ramses trained his sons and led them into several battles including Canaan Palestine and several islands like Cyprus Ramses even ventured as far as Sardinia where he captured the population known as the Sudan the sir Dan would come in helpful in Ramsey's biggest battle ever at Kadesh we do not know for certain but it seems Greece and

Egypt were allies in 18th Dynasty tombs we can see greens arriving in Egypt with gifts it appears that they had a good relationship as every other Mediterranean country caused war with Egypt apart from Greece even if Atari received several gifts from the queens of Greece such as her round silver button earrings a typical Royal jewelry item at the time in Greece a gift that impressed nefitari so much she is shown in her tomb wearing them along with several statues throughout the land she may have handed them down to her first daughter Merit Ahmed as she

is seen wearing the same earrings on her statues foreign war was upon Egypt Ramses went into Asia Minor to go in conquer cities on his way North to the hittite stronghold of Kadesh Ramses for zero at the time passer was not promoted to the overseer basically of Egypt at that time it was nefertari one could say that if Atari was even co-regent while Ramses was away she was running the country on his behalf so we get the idea that you might have been co-regent as this is evident in her Temple at Abu symbol where we

see in the inner sanctuary nefertari and Ramses on the throne of Egypt as equals however Iran's is being away with atari's life became Evermore in danger brief Papyrus documents mention a scary situation where several hittite soldiers seek arrived in thieves on the West Bank at the ramesium construction an attempt to kidnap nefhitary was made during the battle of kadish were while the battle of Khan some of the kites managed to sneak to the Royal Palace and me was rescued and was not abducted by data luckily one of her ladies in Waiting was able to alert

the guards in time this event would have infuriated Ramses upon his return foreign fought Ramses records his victory throughout the land on almost every Temple War some experts say it was more of propaganda than an actual trial yet the Hittites documents say that they won and the Egyptians say that they were the winners who actually won you may never know although I am more likely to believe the Egyptian side of the story there is a cuneiform letter from the hittite queen to nefertari and Ramses where she refers to herself and the King as your servant

now if the Hittites had truly won the Battle of Kadesh why would the hittite queen refer to herself as lower than the Egyptians by referring to herself as a servant so we can start to get an idea of how the politics is working out at that time and if Atari knew what needed to be done Egypt needed resolution and the insurance that Egypt would not again have such a big war nefertari actively participated in the Egyptian street that ended the best no conflict of the rambiside period we have one letter that survives in the cuneiform

tablet and was found in modern day Turkey this letter is composed over a few lines and addresses the queen of the hitas she was a true partner to Pharaoh rameses using her skills and charm to build a strong diplomatic relationship with another powerful and influential she's one of the only Queens of quranic Egypt who engaged in a diplomatic correspondence through her diplomacy she wrote several letters to the hittite queen Puda hippo some of these letters remain and they show great affection from nikitari to the headlights she often even refers to herself as your sister whether

she actually was the sister of pudahipa or if this was an affectionate gesture if Atari managed to charm the king and queen she suggested peace between the two empires a request that was greatly welcomed by both sides the priest treaty is recorded at Karnak Temple as well as on a hittite silver Palate on several Steely and tablets the treaty management driver party witnesses to protect their best interests the Incarnation of Egypt mired nefertari for this the result of her political efforts was a peace treaty to demonstrate the importance of that peace replica you and Bill

another author was suggested by nefitari that the hittite King was to send the princess for Ramses to marry this marriage with Ensure peace through family bonds the letters were sent in person by Kenway said the son of Ramses to the Hittites the idea pleased the Hittites and they sent back a princess for Ramses to take as his wife [Music] not only a pretty face if Atari probably saved Egypt from any further decline [Music] the great Queen nefertari of the land of Egypt speaks thus to my sister pudahipa the great Queen of the hittite land I

your sister also be well may your country be well [Music] foreign [Music] have written to me asking after my health you have written to me because of the good friendship and brotherly relationship between our brother and the king of Egypt the Egyptian sun god and the hittite storm God will bring about peace and he will make the brotherly relationship between the great Kings last forever [Music] I have sent you a gift in order to greet you my sister for your neck a necklace of pure gold composed of 12 bands and weighing 88 shekels blue-colored linen

for one Royal dress for the king and a total of 12 linen garments after her attempt abduction Ramses took an ifitari on at least two campaigns where she was protected by her own set of bodyguards but her Temple she is shown standing next to Ramses as he is in battle and shortly after these two battles Ramses took a step back [Music] thank you [Music] he would be dedicated to more religious roles at the Khan Act his sons who were well trained by their father would now become the military force Ramses set out to make himself

into a living God he commissioned two temples of Abu Simba on the border with Nubia one Temple would Proclaim Ramses as a real living God the other would be dedicated to the love of his life Northern or smaller to the inscriptions on the ceiling you find that it is she who created this beautiful house or temple in the pure mountain and it is there that the Celtic role of no fertari is actually articulated because among her epithets are she is the one for who sake the sun rises that means she is the embodiment of the

female principle who acts as the trigger in order to activate the regenerative powers of her husband Ramsay II so that he can appear each day as the radiant sun shining his Bounty upon the prosperity and health of ancient Egypt many scenes in both temples show the couple performing several religious rights we can see many scenes dedicated to the goddess of love here for Ramses and nefertari's story and relationship are shown throughout the temple from nefertari and Ramses as young teenagers with nefertari were exceptionally long hair all the way to nefertari being crowned as great Royal

wife by the two goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt [Music] at the inner sanctuary of nifitari's Temple she is shown at the very center the most important person in this Temple inside nefertari's Temple which is the most beautiful Temple that I will symbolize in my opinion we have the innermost Sanctuary where we have a little bird flying in with its babies cute that's that's love right there but love here is about is abundant it's happily the cow goddess and she is here with nefertari in front of her and on the side not in a statue

and a carving is Ramses II worshiping hathor and his wife nefertari now Ramses is shown here very clearly worshiping his wife Noah the king worshiped his wife no other Queen for the whole Temple dedicated to herself from the King she was shown on the same scale as Ramses on the carving and on statues from this point on one wall we even see the royal couple in a moment before a passionate kiss es the goddess moved and Ramses shown as our moon for me she epitomizes the perfect woman why because she was highly intelligent powerful loyal

loving and beautiful and because she was recognized as true equal to today many women are still striving for equality over 3 000 years later the temples would make Ramses into a God and in effect of elevating his own wife he would give her the status of a goddess the temples were inaugurated in year 24 of Ramsay's Reign but the entire Temple complex would not have been fully inaugurated until year 36 the inauguration the initial inauguration was rushed ahead of time by this time nefertari's Health had began to decline we know this from the inside of

her temple side chapels however a very sad account exists on a stealer from the Viceroy heckenact Steeler is actually on the side of Abu symbol and what it shows is the initial inauguration taking place with on the upper side Ramses and Merit amul presenting before the gods inaugurating the temple however in a lower side of the Steeler we see nefertari on a platform and on a throw that is usually reserved for a barge the placement of nefertari on this section of the Steeler has a very striking meaning by this time nefertari had died Ramses rushed

the inauguration of the temple as a last sign of respect for his wife where she would be able to see the temple being too ill she did not get off the boat but she did see the facades upon her journey back she passed into the next world nicotari was 30 years old the lady For Whom The Sun Shines had now gone from the land of Egypt [Music] foreign [Music] the death of nefertari must have been extremely devastating for Ramses we get the sense in his later inscriptions that he must have gone into a form of

depression he lived into his 90s and outlived many of his family members although he had other wives it appears that no one could replace nefertari before her untimely death Ramses began to prepare an extravagant tomb for nifitari no expense was spared and the creation of her tomb even the artists who crafted the tomb must have been in love with the queen as the art does not only show religious rights but it exudes love from the people who made it in the Tomb Ramses left her poem dedicated to nefertari and listening to it the words convey

his true feelings of love and sadness now that she was no longer by his side [Music] my love is unique no one can rival her for she is the most beautiful woman alive just by passing she has a stalling away in my heart she fulfills the coronated holes with her perfume the land of halt her perfect breast dread in the finest white limits slender connect gold is nothing compared to have arms her fingers are like Lotus petals her waist is narrow ground products can as fair and soft as yet her hair is color of the

darkest beautiful face my love for hair is unique no one can drive with her she is the most beautiful woman in the world beloved of mood never retired the beauty of the beauties have toys 2 was discovered in 1904 by Italian egyptologist caparelli it is regarded one of the most beautiful tombs in the whole of Egypt and it's truly mesmerizing in a testament to Robinson's love for his beautiful wife he referred to her as the one for whom the sun shines after the death of Ramses Egypt went into a decline Anton robbing was right we

know that the tomb of nithitari was not robbed by Egyptians as the priests had moved all of the bodies from the Valley of the Queens into one hidden tomb that who Prince came way said Son of Ramses III her tomb was later planted by a new group who had come to Egypt 1500 years after nifitari was laid to rest the Coptic Christians tools that were not robbed by ancient Egyptians were then plundered by the Christians and even used as hideaways in qatari's worldly goods were stolen a grounded sarcophagus was smashed to Pieces her mummified body

ripped apart and burned his firewall only two parts of her body remain the parts of her legs as discovered by Italian explorer Ernesto's caviarelli in 1904. in the tombs a mummified human remains were discovered these when three fragmented pieces all belonging to the legs so one piece appeared to be part of a femur a petal and a tibia the other part of a female the third part of the tibia now the question was do these mummified remains belong to Queen avatari so over a century later in 2016 a team of international researchers put this to

the test with some fascinating results they found that the mummified remains did indeed belong to a female she was significantly taller than the average Egyptian woman slender and probably died between the ages of 40 to 60 which does correspond with the age that we think nefertari was when she died we know she was probably in her late 40s perhaps even early 50s but what caused the Queen's death in 2019 new evidence may have been uncovered her mummified legs were sent under a CT scan to see a possible cause many experts suggested heart disease some others

have suggested malaria Ramsay's adored her he called her the One For Whom The Sun Shines she's here in Kansas City on loan from the Italian Museo egizio in Turin for an exhibition of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and we're going to look at life in Egypt it's not about death it's about how people lived 3000 years ago these scans this is the environment and reconstruction of the legs will be analyzed by cardiologists and internationally recognized mummy research expert Dr Randall Thompson his team will try to determine whether or not nefertari suffered from heart disease

thousands of centuries ago one of the main things we're looking for is whether there's any arterial disease in the leg it's amazing the if there's calcium in the arteries it lays down in three thousand years later you can still see it with the CT scanner also interesting is that the embalming material was chemically analyzed using gas chromatography and the chemicals that had been used during the mummification process were consistent with those used in the New Kingdom Period but can we tell how she died this is very difficult but the x-rays did reveal cortical thinning and

some porosity which is a sign of osteoporosis which is a disease in which the bones become so fragile that they can easily fracture another significant find of the x-rays was arterial calcification which is an indicator of arterial disease so to look at this in more detail the latter part of 2019 she was CT scan in Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City and cardiologist Dr Thompson's initial thoughts were that does indeed appear to be arterial calcification so perhaps she was suffering from atherosclerosis which is a very serious condition that can ultimately lead to a heart attack

or a stroke and even death the few remaining artifacts from her tool include an alabaster and Gold Perfume jar an ivory container used for face dreams topped with the finally carved goose with some of the content still inside analysis shows her face cream contained frankincense Army Cedar and dodging oil extracts an Exquisite gold and red jasper stone ring with her Cartouche several Sharpies had a bus to jars linen broken wooden boxes a pair of sandals and most interestingly a tip of a walking stick with the Cartouche and feral light why would an item belonging to

the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh I be present in nefertari's too we found in the Tomb of nefertari in the name I and that's why people started relating that's why archaeologists and anthropologists started relating I were nepotary to I that maybe she is the daughter of I but that's really when you look at the time frame between the time by and the time of nefertari this is really hard to believe he would have been extremely old to have a daughter that time and probably maybe he is the grandfather but nothing is solid nothing is confirmed at all

some suggest it was placed there by accident during tomb raiding but that is unlikely is it possible that she was buried with an item that belonged to a former Pharaoh an item that she wanted to keep close to her an item that could even prove nefitari's true Noble heritage I and his first wife the son named Mac mean he was married to UI he is mentioned as Viceroy of kush during the reign of tutan karmilun and was succeeded by parse the vision on the Ramses II nak mean was the chosen successor after I however he

died leaving his wife and their son also named I behind I sound an act mean was to become the high priesthood and as we know in the fittari's full name was ended with the words Mary moot a title that would have been handed down due to a family member working as a priesthood the connection between the walking stick fragment with eyes name in her tomb and the family line of pharaoh I surely all start to point towards the answer noted was coming from a noble family after all we already discussed how nifitari called the hittite

queen her sister this may be true this may also just be a gestural friendship however another family has come up and you are a nobleman from the late brain of city and early reign of Ramses is shown on her statue with a woman this statue has been identified as a marriage statue but is it the man and the woman has shown holding each other by the shoulder in Egyptian art a marriage statue would rather be shown holding at the waist a statue of support or showing family would rather show holding the shoulder [Music] a stealing

from dear omgena reports the wife of pindula as there the woman shown with pedula is titled as my third party is it possible that because of nifitari's high status her possible brother in Euler could have commissioned this statue or is this nefertari's one daughter with a husband although the timing is out then although the likelihood that nifitari was rather related to a is better Her Image is adorned Temple walls throughout Egypt she was shown on the same scale as her husband she appears alongside Ramses on so many statues she had her own Temple she was

the Queen of Egypt her tomb is the most Exquisite example of Egyptian painting but it was almost wiped out completely it was closed for a good many years about 20 years and the Getty Foundation went in and spent Millions on restoring this tomb tomb was unfortunately built above assault that because her tomb was created in a unique Style with wet paint being applied to add plaster in a more fresh Coast style the salt was able to grow forming crystals under the plaster which pushed the paintings off of the walls in 1986 an Italian team stepped

in to save nefertari's too the wounds were slowly taken down and the salt was removed after placing back any small damaged areas were touched up with fine lines that appear solid from afar the tomb was opened again to the public in 1994 but after testing it was closed a few years after in the early 90s the humidity from tourists could activate the sword to grow again and conditions need to be controlled to preserve the tulip today you can enter the tomb but not as a general public member you need a high price ticket or special

access to this sacred site ancient Egyptians were still as human as we are today to think that there were any uh different to us would be great mistake the societies come and go human nature changes yet emotions still stay the same they loved the hurt they aspired to do better they prayed when times of Crisis struck this Atari has been made popular in the early 1900s with movies like The Ten Commandments however these films are mere Fiction with nifitari being portrayed as some sort of Vixen who double times the pharaoh this is not true and

these movies should only be seen by simple entertainment and not Factor the movie Ten Commandments made in 1950 far from her reality in the movie nefertari had a love affair with Moses her character's motive was to do anything to be with him even if it meant killing a servant who revealed Moses's true slave Origins to protect him from the pharaoh's run in my opinion she was portrayed as shallow cunning and Lovestruck it may be argued that this is the point at which nefertari becomes an icon of popular culture certainly the character is third in the

cast list and is played by an actress at the height of her ability and Baxter have received an Academy Award in 1946 and have been nominated for an Academy Award for best actress in 1951 with a large eyes and mobile mouth and Baxter resembles in many respects a character from The Archie Comics [Music] and yet she is more than just a glamorous actress she is an actress of considerable ability and Nuance the suggestion is that rather than whomsoever wins The Throne of Egypt also gains the hand of nefertari it's demille's suggestion that it's the other

way round and that's one of the reasons why we have the difficulties between the relationship of Ramesses and nefertari she becomes and men respect almost Lady Macbeth to his Ramesses II the character of nefertari referred to throughout his nephratiri is actually a strange amalgam of Vamp created by thedbara back in 1917's Cleopatra but also the sort of noirish monstrous woman portrayed by Barbara Stanwick in Dublin Indemnity is an interesting mix of characters it's a very interesting way of perceiving the character and of entering her into a plot where otherwise she would be absent in this

movie The Mummy mummy anyway connecting the past and the present nefertari is of great potential to experience the Egyptian era really up close to ourselves I hope that we can resurrect the iconic Aura of nefertari together and show to the world the magnificent person she was a recent Janice was an exotic dancer with an artistic event and The Story Goes that in 1904 she was touring with her group and she saw an advert for the cigarette brand Egyptian deities and from then on she became hooked by ancient Egypt and ancient cultures in general and of

course 1904 is also the year that nefertari's tomb was discovered so obviously there is that link there too now by 1910 recent dentists had created series of dances called Egypt and you can see in my opinion the influences of nefertari's Tomb and nephtari in general through the dancers from the elongated eye shape to the sheer dresses that written Dennis and her group of dancers were all wearing now I love this because for me it is an example of nefertari's beauty and Grace reaching out across the centuries and because recent Dennis is credited with creating and

defining modern dance I think it's a great example of how nefertari is still with us and still influencing us today foreign [Music] we need to stop looking at these people as scientific reports in a book we have to stand back and look at their human emotions and by doing this we might be able to see and understand their history in a more personal way I have visited nefertari's tomb a couple of times and each time it is an overwhelming experience foreign truly was the most beautiful woman here in Egypt for me I am so overwhelmed

to be in here it's amazing [Music] something interesting you'll notice is that in her tomb there's not one depiction of her husband Ramses II and I like to believe that she is shown on her own here because Ramses loved her so much that he wanted to pay tribute to his great wife by dedicating this too this incredibly magnificent two to nefertari [Music] foreign now let me tell you about the real nefertari well-educated she could read and write hieroglyphics tomina fattari is a very powerful woman I am passionate about nefertari for several reasons an incredibly interesting

person Anonymous is the great worshiped her as a woman he built a temple tour The Sun Shines the Lady of Grace nefertari the most beautiful of them are nefertari becomes an icon of popular culture forever and ever remember that name nefertari nefertari was quite perfect a most unbelievable woman that you should know more about there have been hundreds of Queens throughout Egypt's history but for me no other compares to the Splendor the grace the elegance and the beauty the net of nefertari [Music]