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Cleopatra
Nefertiti
Ramses
Not only was Cleopatra famous for her
beauty, but also the attractiveness in the
way she spoke, and her stimulating
character.
Cleopatra ruled Egypt on her own rather
than in the name of her husband and her
relationships with the leaders of Rome led
to many scandals and her death continues
to inspire playwrights, movie producers,
and romantics.
Cleopatra came to power in Egypt at the
age of 17. Queen Cleopatra reigned from
51-30 B.C. As a Ptolemy, Cleopatra was
Macedonian, but even though her ancestry
was Macedonian, she was still an Egyptian
queen and worshipped as a god.
Ramses II was an ancient Egyptian king,
third ruler of the 19th Dynasty, the son of
Seti I. During the early part of his reign
Ramses fought to regain the territory in
Africa and western Asia that Egypt had
held during the 16th and 15th centuries
BC. His principal opponents were the
Hittites, a powerful people of Asia Minor,
against whom he waged a long war. The
major battle of this war was fought in
1274 at Kadesh, in northern Syria, and in
1258 BC a treaty was signed whereby the
contested lands were divided and Ramses
agreed to marry the daughter of the Hittite
king. The remaining years of his rule were
distinguished by construction of such
monuments as the rock-hewn temple of
Abu Simbel, the great hypostyle hall in the
Temple of Amon at Karnak, and the
mortuary temple at Thebes, known as the
Ramesseum. (Encarta 98).
The most famous of all the kings
found in the Valley of the Kings
was Tutankhamen, also known as
King Tut. He died in January
1343 B.C. It is thought that an
official murdered him because his
skull was bashed in and only a
person of great importance could
get near enough to harm him.
He is so famous because his
tomb was in almost perfect
condition when it was discovered.
Her name, means “the beautiful (or perfect)”
woman. Some scholars think that Nefertiti
traveled to Egypt from a foreign land. Others
theorize she was an Egyptian royal by birth.
Still others think it unlikely that she was of
royal blood, but that her father was a high
government official, a man named Ay, who
went on to become pharaoh after
Tutankhamen.
Essentially nothing is known about Nefertiti
before she became co-regent of Egypt with her
husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled from
1352 B.C. to 1336 B.C.
She had an unusually high status during her
husband's turbulent reign. The couple's
renegade practice of monotheism —they
worshipped the sun disc god over all others,
and seem to have outlawed their subjects'
polytheistic devotion — threatened Egypt's
priesthood and ensured they would have no
shortage of powerful enemies.