Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the Valley of the Queens, there is an enormous and spectacular ancient tomb that belongs to Queen Nefertari (1290–1224 BC).
Nefertari Meritmut, whose name means 'beautiful companion,' was the first of the Great Royal Wives of Ramesses the Great and one of the best-known Egyptian queens, next to Hatshepsut, Cleopatra, and Nefertiti.
Compared to Cleopatra, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, or to Nefertiti, who suddenly disappeared after being elevated to near-equal status by King Akhenaten, Nefertari's life history is not as complicated or mysterious, but it is significant.
Her giant tomb, QV66, offers evidence of her importance and power as the first wife of Ramesses the Great, the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
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