anyone have any good information on queen nefertari in egypt?

Question

a friend of mine is doing a research paper on her......10 points to the best answer.....thanks in advance

Answer 1

Nefertiti

Once a queen of immense beauty ruled alongside Akhenaten during the Amarna Period and helped her beloved Akhenaten promote his new religion. She had a short reign of twelve years and vanished into time. Very little is known about her, but yet she still continues to captivate the world with her beauty. Who was this lady? What exactly is known about her? Come discover this woman that held such an important role in her reign during the Amarna Period.

Nefertiti means, “The beautiful one has arrived.” She lived in Tell El Amarna, located nearly 300 hundred miles south of Cairo. It’s believed that Nefertiti was probably a distant relative to Akhenaten and a favorite queen to the pharaoh. Nothing is known about the queen’s childhood, but first appears in history as Akhenaten's wife. It's believed Akhenaten and his queen brought forth such dramatic changes, that they were unloved by their subjects.

Akhenaten constructed a place to worship Aten, the sun disk god, and named his capitol Akhetaon. This new city was unique and unlike most ancient Egyptian cities. The temples were constructed with no roofs, allowing the rays of the sun to enter the temple. His city had palaces along with villas for the rich, and inhabited almost twenty to fifty thousand villagers.

Supporting her husbands’ beliefs, she changed her name to Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti meaning, “The Aten is radiant of radiance [because] the beautiful one has come.” Nefertiti was more then just a queen, she supported her husband, promoted his religious beliefs, and was depicted more pharaonic, rather then queenly. New findings are proving that Nefertiti was probably one of Egypt’s most powerful queens to ever rule. She was shown with the crown of a pharaoh and was depicted in scenes of battle. Also a large tomb was constructed for her, thought to be a tomb fit for a pharaoh. Although depicted gallantly and heroically, queen Nefertiti loved and cared for her deformed and sickly husband.

Egyptologists also think Akhenaten was born with many deformities that made him handicapped. Akhenaten might have had bad vision, allowing Queen Nefertiti to control and decide many events and situations. Not only did she live as royalty, but next to Akhenaten’s name in a cartouche was hers. This cartouche symbolized her status as a pharaoh and great importance.

Answer 2

Queen Nefertiti was the wife of Akhenaton who ruled Egypt from 1375 to 1358 BC and she changed Egyptian culture so radically that the influence was felt centuries later. It was her influence that strengthened the Egyptian empire during her husband's reign that made Egypt on one of the most influentially and modernized countries of that time. It was at that time that the unique artform as many came to know, the system of record keeping and utilizing such to enhance the written language where it's applied to songs, poetry, and story telling.