Facsimile of detail from Wall painting in the tomb of Queen Nefertari. The tomb of Queen Nefertari, Valley of the Queens, Thebes, Egypt, The image within the burial chamber shows a lion, heron, falcon, Nefertari lived around 1300-1255 BC and was the first wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. It was rediscovered in 1904 by the Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli,