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 I left off yesterday with Queen Tuya, mother of Ramses II. This panel looks into more about her. Here we have fragments including hieroglyp...

 Carrying on, here we have the greatest of all the pharaohs, Ramses II, sitting between the god Amun and his wife Mut.  This statue is thoug...

 I was particularly taken with a display area set up like a temple. Sekhmet was a lion headed goddess of the Egyptians, and this area includ...

The queens of Egypt exercised considerable power, associated with goddesses in the same manner that their husbands were associated with gods...

 The Queens of Egypt exhibit at the Canadian Museum of History comes to an end today, but my recent visit allowed for me to take it in and s...