Among the more than 100-plus offspring of Ramses II, Prince Khaemwaset truly stands apart. He held the prestigious post of high priest of Ptah, the patron god of Memphis. Bas-reliefs depict him in his important duty of tending the tomb of Ptah’s sacred Apis bulls in the underground comp...
Ramses II was buried in theValley of Kings, but had to be replaced because of looting. After a detour, his mummy was moved to tomb DB320, located near Deir el-Bahri, where it would be safe fromtomb robbers. In 1881 his body was discovered there and moved toCairo's Egyptian Museum. ...
The Great Temple at Abu Simbel is generally considered the greatest of the temples built during the reign of Ramses II.Tom Schwabel / Getty Images When Nefertari died, approximately 24 years into Ramses’ reign, she was buried in a tomb fit for a queen. The wall paintings inside the struct...
In the late 19th century that tomb was rediscovered, but the king’s remains had already been removed by looters. The mummy became part of the collection of a small museum in Niagara Falls, Canada, in the mid-19th century. When the museum closed in 1999, the collection was obtained by ...
50. His Wife's Tomb Was Achingly Beautiful Unfortunately, looters ransacked nearly every ancient Egyptian tomb centuries before modern archaeologists ever discovered them. However, Nefertari's tomb was different. Though looters did indeed take all of the Queen's treasures, Ramses made sure that hi...
(modernQifṭ) inUpper Egypt, were surveyed and reopened to extract building stone. More quarrying occurred the next year, and cutting of the royal tomb began after the gang of workers assigned to it was doubled. The greatest activity occurred in the third year of his reign, when three...