Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1920 — Famous Egyptian Queen. [ARTICLE]

Famous Egyptian Queen.

Aames Nefertarl was the great ancestress of the New Empire at Thebes in ancient Egypt, 1700 B. C. This dynasty, the etgtheenth, was that of the Thothmes’ mighty warriors and builders, and of the famous HatshepsuPharaoh, woman Pharaoh apd discoverer. On the rock-tablets of Massarah opposite Memphis on the Nile, and in the sepulchral chambers of the Theban Necropolis, this great woman is remembered as “the beautiful consort of Aames,” and as “the wife of the god Amon” (Amon-Ba). On her head she wore not only the crown of Egypt united, but the vulture headdress signifying motherhood, for the “vulture” was the symbol of Mut, the second person in -the Egyptian triad of gods at Thebes —Amon, Mut, Khonsu. - ‘