This video explores the life and significance of Queen Nefertari, the Great Royal Wife of Ramses II. Nefertari was highly educated, able to read and write hieroglyphs, and married Ramses II at the age ...

Discovered along a path, in 1930, from the Hathor Temple to Mine L, were inscriptions photographed, and described, as Sinai 360 and 361. ... whose members were the priests of Hashem.

Rita Cecile Carder Walters, 89, New Matamoras, OH, passed away Thursday, April 17, 2025 at Marietta Memorial Hospital. Born in Point Pleasant, WV, on August 24, 1935, she was the daughter of the ...

The tomb belonged to an official named Seneb-Neb-Af and his wife Idet, who was a priestess of the goddess Hathor. Copper pollution in Great Pyramid harbor (Image credit: Robster1983/Wikimedia ...

Initial studies of these remains suggest that the priestess died at around the age of 40, ... reveal that she had been a “priestess of Hathor”—Egypt’s goddess of love, ...

The association of Hathor with dance would persist throughout Egyptian history. The Temple of Hathor at Dendera, a structure dating from the Ptolemaic period (332-30 B.C.), bears the following ...

A significant archaeological find in Asyut, Egypt, has revealed the hidden tomb of a priestess dating back nearly 4,000 years. Discovered beneath a stone wall 45 feet underground, the burial of Idi, a ...

After 20 years of fieldwork in the mountains of Gebel Asyut al-Gharbi—located near the ancient Egyptian city of Asyut—archaeologists discovered the grave of Idy, a priestess of the goddess Hathor.

Idi’s burial chamber is located inside the ornate tomb of her father, Djefaihapi I, who served as the governor of Asyut during the reign of Pharaoh Senusret I. Researchers discovered Idi’s two coffins ...

A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly 4,000 years. Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb ...

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Female priests were not common in ancient Egypt. Hathor, who also represented music and dance, had a number of them in her priesthood, reports National Geographic.