Queen Nefertari was The Great Royal wife of Ramesses the Great and her name means Beautiful Companion
In the Valley of the Queens on the West Bank of the River Nile, Ramses created an exquisite tomb for Nefertari the Incomparable, Beloved, Glory for her Soul.
Queen Nefetari’s coffin was not found in her tomb, it was discovered by the tomb robber Ahmed Rassul who was looking for his goat near to the temple of Hatshepsut at Dier El Bahari, 3,000 years after her death in the cache known as DB320. Nefertari was surrounded by forty Great Kings, and royalty along with her husband Ramses the Great . It took sixteen men to lift its weight from the tomb and move it alone.
It was thought that priests had removed the Kings and Queens from their own tombs in this isolated place from the Valley of the Kings and Queens, they were found by the tomb robber Ahmed Rassul
The Royal mummies were taken from their hiding place near the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Dier El Bahari and were carried by donkeys and mules to the banks of the Nile where they were transported to Cairo. Women came to the river bank and wailed in mourning for the deceased kings and their kin. Never in the history of any nation has there been such an awesome entourage of deceased royalty, the glory of Ancient Egypt rose again as their Ancient Kings and Queens traveled to safety in Cairo, their final resting place, where modern scientists now continue the work of some of the ancient priests to protect and preserve the mummies of their kings.
Below is a short video of Nefertari,s tomb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1g-BSiJmu0
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