Queen Nefertari is usually shown wearing the vulture crown of the goddess Nekhbet, the protector of Upper Egypt.

This drawing of Queen Nefertari was based upon an image from her tomb in the Valley of the Queens.

Her tomb is one of the most beautiful ever discovered.

She was the favourite wife of the greatest of all the pharaohs, Rameses II, and she bore him at least six children.

She probably died after his 30th year on the throne, about 12 centuries before the birth of Christ.

Our drawing lesson on the following pages is based upon this image of Queen Nefertari.