Nefertiti

Famous for her legendary beauty (her name means ‘the beautiful one has arrived’), Nefertiti lived in the 14th century B.C. An Egyptian queen, she was the wife of the Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, more commonly known by the name Akhenaton, at whose side she played an important role in the representation of pharaonic power. She gave birth to six daughters, who for the most part died quite young. We do not know exactly when Nefertiti died, her remains have never been discovered or definitely identified, even if the English archaeologist Joanne Fletcher thinks that a mummy found in a tomb in the Valley of Kings in 1898 could indeed be that of Nefertiti.