In the 13th century BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II, two temples were cut out of the rock at Abu Simbel as a tribute to Ramesses II and his queen Nefertari. It is about 300 kilometers by road from the Aswan dam to where it is now, on the west side of Lake Nasser.
The Valley of the Queens, as named by Champollion, is located to the southwest of the Valley of the Kings and is where numerous royal wives and children are buried. Even though it was utilized as a cemetery as early as the 18th Dynasty, it wasn’t until the reign of 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses I that royal women began to be buried here.
In the 13th century BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II, two temples were cut out of the rock at Abu Simbel as a tribute to Ramesses II and his queen Nefertari. It is about 300 kilometers by road from the Aswan dam to where it is now, on the west side of Lake Nasser.
The Valley of the Queens, as named by Champollion, is located to the southwest of the Valley of the Kings and is where numerous royal wives and children are buried. Even though it was utilized as a cemetery as early as the 18th Dynasty, it wasn’t until the reign of 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses I that royal women began to be buried here.
In the 13th century BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II, two temples were cut out of the rock at Abu Simbel as a tribute to Ramesses II and his queen Nefertari. It is about 300 kilometers by road from the Aswan dam to where it is now, on the west side of Lake Nasser.
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