Tuya (also called Tuy or more rarely Mut-Tuya or Muty;[1][2] in transliteration from hieroglyphic, Twy, Twjȝ, or Twyȝ, as well as Mwt-Twjȝ,;[3] in cuneiform texts from the Hittite correspondence, Tūya, SALTu-u-ia.

Ramesses dedicated a monumental structure within his mortuary temple, the Ramesseum, to his mother,[11] and also constructed a fine new tomb for her in the section of the Valley of the Queens that he developed for the burials of the women in his family.

[12] Following the peace treaty between Egypt and Hatti in Year 21 of Ramesses II (1259 BC according to the "Low Chronology"), Tuya sent congratulatory letters to the Hittite great king Ḫattušili III and to his queen Puduḫepa, whom she addressed as her symbolic "brother" and "sister," respectively.

[14] Tuya likely died in or soon after Year 22 of Ramesses' reign and was buried in an impressive tomb on the north side of the main wadi of the Valley of the Queens (QV80).

"[15] Because the Pharaoh of the Exodus is popularly identified as Ramses II, Tuya often appears in adaptations of the Book of Exodus: Queen Tuya has been first portrayed by actress Irene Martin in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, as one of Bithiah's maidservants famous for quoting "Bithiah could charm tears from a crocodile."