Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

The Hereditary Princess, greatly favored, sweet of love, Mistress of the South and North, fair of face, beauteous with the ...

Italian archaeologists found a pair of mummified knees in Nefertari's tomb in 1904. For the first time, tests indicate that the knees belonged to the great queen herself.

Queen Nefertari’s tomb brought back from the dead in Kansas City. Although the “Sistine Chapel of Ancient Egypt” is more than 3,000 years old, a new show aims to enliven it with sculptures, ...

Italian archaeologists first excavated the queen's elaborately decorated tomb in 1904, and found two fragmented but preserved mummified legs among a series of artifacts that had been plundered in ...

When Egyptologists broke open the tomb of Queen Nefertari in 1904, they found a once-lavish burial place that had been looted in antiquity. The legs were assumed to belong to Queen Nefertari, who ...

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 ...

The inner coffin and the mummy boards of Hory, the head of the domain of Amun-Re, is part of the New Orleans Museum of Art's exhibit "Queen Nefertari's Egypt" that opens on Friday, March 18 in New ...

Along with the discovered materials from Queen Nefertari’s tomb, there are artifacts from other Egyptian women. Makeup containers, jars and statues are part of the experience.

Nefertari's spectacularly painted tomb was discovered by an Italian archeologist in 1904, and the objects in the upcoming NOMA exhibit are from the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy.

Scientists have conducted a thorough analysis of the ancient, mummified leg bones found in Queen Nefertari’s tomb, in an attempt to figure out if the bones really belong to the famous queen.