Nefertari (?-1255 BC) was the first of the principal wives of Pharaoh Ramesses II.
Biography[]
Nefertari was the great-granddaughter of the Pharaoh Ay, and she married Ramesses II before his reign.
According to some accounts, she was the Egyptian princess who fell in love with Moses and attempted to conceal his Israelite origin, murdering his adoptive mother Bithiah's servant Memnet to prevent her from revealing Moses' real parents.
Nefertari supported Moses' ambitions to become Pharaoh until he confessed to being a Jew, leading to Pharaoh Seti I expelling him from the country. Nefertari married Ramesses instead, and their firstborn died along with all of the other Egyptian firstborns in a massive plague. Nefertari herself died in 1255 BC.
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Nefertari as a princess.