Sources and image credits
The site is written for public readers, but the main scenes are anchored in credible archaeological, museum, conservation, and open-license image sources.
Main evidence anchors
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities notes that, on the façade of the Small Temple, Nefertari’s colossi are the same size as those of Ramesses II, “a very rare example” of such display. Exact source page used for this data point: https://egymonuments.gov.eg/archaeological-sites/abu-simbel/.
Egyptian Monuments: Abu SimbelThe Getty Conservation Institute describes its conservation project in the tomb of Queen Nefertari in the Valley of the Queens, conducted with the Egyptian Antiquities Organization from 1986 to 1992.
Nefertari’s tomb conservation processLivius records a Hattusa letter from the Hittite queen Puduhepa to the Egyptian queen Nefertari, dated around 1250 BCE, and identifies the object as an Akkadian diplomatic tablet.
Livius: Letter from Puduhepa to NefertariThe site presents Nefertari’s unusual visibility as an evidence-aware interpretation. It does not claim hidden history, mystical proof, or certainty where the record is incomplete.
Images and graphics
The historical content images are real photographs, archival photographs, or photographed historical objects. The scale graphic is an interpretive visual explainer, not a historical photograph, and its factual anchors are credited below.
Photo by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0. Used for the Abu Simbel chapter and Abu Simbel social image.
Wikimedia Commons fileInterpretive comparison graphic used in the Abu Simbel chapter. The right-side claim is anchored in the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Abu Simbel page. The supporting example references the Wikimedia Commons Colossi of Memnon file, which notes that shorter figures of Tiy and Mutemwiya are carved beside Amenhotep III’s legs. The graphic itself is an explanatory schematic, not a historical photograph.
Wikimedia Commons: Colossi of Memnon, Luxor, EgyptPhoto by Cleopatra VIII (Nefertiri), CC BY-SA 4.0. Used on the homepage, tomb chapter, final chapter, and selected social images.
Wikimedia Commons filePhoto by Isabeau, CC BY-SA 4.0. Used for the diplomatic-letter chapter.
Wikimedia Commons fileArchivio fotografico Museo Egizio, Turin, CC0 public domain dedication. Used for the rise and tomb chapters.
Wikimedia Commons fileMedia use note
The site currently points visitors to museum, conservation, and archive pages rather than downloading, cropping, screen-recording, or rehosting third-party tomb footage.
Future narration should use an original script written for this site and grounded in cited facts, rather than reading a modern translation line by line unless that translation is clearly public domain, open licensed, or used with permission.
