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Historical person
1291 BCE–1256 BCE
Nefertari was the principal wife of Ramesses II and one of the most prominent queens of the New Kingdom. She appears in royal monuments, diplomatic contexts and the richly decorated tomb built for her in the Valley of the Queens.
In Michelle Moran’s The Heretic Queen, Nefertari is the last surviving princess associated with the condemned Amarna dynasty, and the memory of Nefertiti’s religious revolution makes her an uncomfortable presence at the new royal court. Christian Jacq’s Ramses: The Son of Light places Nefertari within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, religion, belief and institutional authority, and military command and battlefield decision-making. Other novels featuring Nefertari include Christian Jacq’s Ramses: The Temple of a Million Years, Christian Jacq’s Ramses: Under the Western Acacia, and Christian Jacq’s The Lady of Abu Simbel.
Series
The Ramses series follows Ramesses II from youth and accession through war, diplomacy, temple building, family conflict and old age. The books present the Nineteenth Dynasty as a world of divine kingship, palace rivalry, Hittite confrontation and monumental ambition. The sequence is biographical in shape, using the long…
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Michelle Moran’s Egyptian Royals Collection follows three royal women whose lives are reshaped by dynastic rupture and imperial power. Nefertiti rises beside Akhenaten during the Amarna religious revolution; Nefertari struggles to overcome that discredited legacy at the court of Ramesses II; and Cleopatra Selene is carried to Rome…
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