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Although the contents had been looted in ancient times, the remaining objects and the magnificent murals lining the tomb walls revealed the power, authority, and status of Nefertari, and detailed the perilous journey she had to make on her path to immortality.

In 1904, the Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli, then director of the Museo Egizio, first re-discovered her tomb. Until the early 1900s, Nefertari, whose name means “beautiful companion” and who was called “the one for whom the sun shines,” was known primarily through a few sculptures, hieroglyphic inscriptions, and text-based sources related to Ramesses II. Through the presentation of 230 objects from this period, the role and legacy of women, including Nefertari, and other great royal wives, sisters, daughters and mothers of pharaohs, as well as goddesses, are brought to life through sculpture, objects, votive steles, stone sarcophagi, and painted coffins, as well as items of daily life from the artisan village of Deir el-Medina, home to the craftsmen who built royal tombs. Nefertari served not only as a queen, but as a divine consort, diplomat, and queen mother, and had one of t he largest and most richly decorated tombs in the Valley of the Queens. “NOMA is delighted to be able to present exceedingly rare objects found within the tomb of Nefertari herself in an installation where visitors can appreciate their great history up close.” “The exceptional objects in Queen Nefertari’s Egypt, drawn from the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, will bring to life the fascinating history and culture of ancient Egypt,” said Susan Taylor, Montine McDaniel Freeman Director. 1539-1075 BCE), when Egyptian civilization was at its height. Artifacts presented in Queen Nefertari’s Egypt provide an extensive look into the power and influence of women during the New Kingdom period (c. 1250 BCE, and she is linked to some of the most magnificent monuments of ancient Egypt.

As the favorite wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II (reigned 1279–13 BCE), Queen Nefertari had significant diplomatic and religious roles before her death in c. NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Queen Nefertari’s Eg ypt, on view March 18–July 17, 2022. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Maa’at the Egyptian goddess of truth, Wall Painting Inside the tomb (QV66) of Nefertari, in Egypt’s Valley of the Queens, ca.