Nefertari Wedding

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Invitation
Rameses II of Egypt & Queen Nefertari Of Nubia will be joining hands in marriage. The people of Egypt and Nubia will be celebrating this marriage on May 31,1312 BC at Abu Simbel. Please wear white if attending the ceremony.

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The people of Nubia and Egypt are glad that the fighting and conquering of one another is over. So of the high rankings will be sad because they will have to work together and “fight” over certain rankings and positions (like the americans and russians in the movie “The man from Uncle”). When attending the ceremony it's ought to believe that people wore white as they do now in Kemet.

Queen Nefertari
The Queen of Kemet lived about 1292-1225 B.C (during The New Kingdom) “Nefertari carried the title God's Wife of Amun which gave the holder considerable independent wealth and power, and wore the elaborate head-dress of Ahmose-Nefertari, but we actually know very little about her activities as Queen” (Womenintheacientworld). The now Queen of upper and lower Egypt, played a prominent role in state ceremonies and then disappeared for awhile and then reappeared about eighteen years before appearing again to write a letter to the Queen of Hatti where a treaty between the two countries
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He was the third Egyptian Pharaoh and who was the monarch the 19th Dynasty in Upper Egypt. Ramesses II was born and raised in upper Egypt, and had family connections that may have played a part in his resolution to move his capital further northward from the previous capital at Thebes. Pi-Ramesses was closer to the Egyptian servant states in Asia and to the border with the Hittite empire. Intelligence and ambassadors would reach the Pharaoh much more rapidly and have a greater impact on his decision. The main corps of the army was also established in the city and could quickly deploy to deal with the storming of the Hittites clans or Shasu nomads from the Jordan

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