2022年9月7日 · To the north of the magnificent temple of Ramses II in Abu Simbel we find one that the monarch ordered to be built, or rather carved, in honor of his wife Nefertari, and the goddess Hathor. Located on the Ibchek promontory, it is a unique temple, since in it the king yields part of his prominence to the queen.

In this photograph, a diminutive Nefertari is depicted behind the leg of her colossal husband in the first court of Luxor Temple, tenderly touching his calf. A graffito in the same court suggests that at least one visitor considered the beautiful Nefertari to be at least as comely as the fabled Helen of Troy, for he carved and captioned a ...

2025年1月15日 · Nefertiti was a queen of Egypt and wife of King Akhenaton, who played a prominent role in changing Egypt's traditional polytheistic religion to one that was monotheistic, worshipping the sun god known as Aton. An elegant portrait bust of Nefertiti now in Berlin is perhaps one of the most well-known ancient sculptures.

Nefertiti (/ ˌ n ɛ f ər ˈ t iː t i / [3]) (c. 1370 – c. 1330 BC) was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for their radical overhaul of state religious policy, in which they promoted the earliest known form of monotheism , Atenism , centered on the ...

QV66 is the tomb of Nefertari, the Great Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II, in Egypt 's Valley of the Queens. It was discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli (the director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin) in 1904.

Queen Nefertari was one of the most famous and powerful women of ancient Egypt. She was the wife of Ramesses II, one of the most powerful pharaohs in Egyptian history. She was also a very religious woman and built many temples and shrines for the gods and goddesses of Egypt that you will explore in Egypt tours.

The so-called small Temple of Abu simbel, dedicated by Ramesses II to his wife Nefertari and the goddess Hathor, was con- structed slightly further north from the main temple . Against its sloping façade (12 x 28 m) with a cavetto molding now largely broken off, stand six colossal figures of the ruler and his wife.

The Queen's temple provides a striking companion to the huge Ramesses temple, more human in size, and with its' goddess head columns softer and feminine. No longer in its' original location as a result of the Aswan High Dam, the entire complex must surely be …

The two enormous rock temples of Abu Simbel were built in the 13th century BCE during the reign of the 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II, known as Ramesses the Great, and his queen Nefertari. Their construction, including the carving of the massive rock-cut statues of the royals, took twenty years.

The Temple of Nefertari (Nefertiti) is the second temple inside the Temple of Abu Simbel, it was constructed in honor of the king’s deep love for Queen Nefertiti since Queen Nefertiti is his favorite wife. The temple is also known as the Temple of Hathor since it is dedicated to the goddess Hathor. There are two towers inside the little ...