Two years later in Paris he repeated the proposal, listing the stone as one of several key items belonging to Egypt's cultural heritage, a list which also included the iconic bust of Nefertiti in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ; a statue of the Great Pyramid architect Hemiunu in the Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany ; the Dendara Temple Zodiac in the Louvre in Paris ; and the bust of Ankhhaf from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

* c. 1348 BC – 1336 BC: Nefertiti, bust from Akhetaten ( modern Amarna ) was made.

Nefertiti bust with eye liner applied

The Nefertiti bust | iconic bust of Nefertiti, claimed by some to be illegally obtained by the Germans during the customary excavations at Tell el-Amarna in 1912.

The Nefertiti Bust is a 3, 300-year-old painted limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and one of the most copied works of ancient Egypt.

A German archaeological team led by Ludwig Borchardt discovered the Nefertiti bust in 1912 in Thutmose's workshop in Amarna, Egypt.

The Nefertiti bust has become a cultural symbol of Berlin, Germany, as well as of ancient Egypt.

Note Nefertiti wears a crown similar to that depicted on the bust.

The bust of Nefertiti is believed to have been crafted in 1345 BC by the sculptor Thutmose.

The bust does not have any inscriptions, but was identified as Nefertiti as it wears the characteristic crown that Nefertiti was known to wear.

Nefertiti bust

The Nefertiti bust was found on 6 December 1912 at Amarna by the German Oriental Company ( Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft – DOG ), led by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt.

Borchardt showed the Egyptian official a photograph of the bust " that didn't show Nefertiti in her best light ".

Neues Museum, Berlin is the present location of the Nefertiti bust

The Nefertiti bust has been in Germany since 1913, when it was shipped to Berlin and presented to James Simon, a wholesale merchant and the sponsor of the Amarna excavation.

The Nefertiti bust was displayed in Berlin ’ s Neues Museum on Museum Island until the museum was closed in 1939 ; with the onset of World War II, the Berlin museums were emptied and the artifacts moved to secure shelters for safekeeping.

As early as 1946, East Germany ( German Democratic Republic ) insisted on the return of Nefertiti to Museum Island in East Berlin, where the bust had been displayed before the war.

In 1989, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak viewed the bust and announced that Nefertiti was " the best ambassador for Egypt " in Berlin.

Dr. Zahi Hawass, the former Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, believes that Nefertiti belongs to Egypt and that the bust was taken out of Egypt illegally and should therefore be returned.

Image: StatueHeadOfNefertiti01. png | Granite head statue of Nefertiti.

Image: Portraitkopf der Nofretete ( Berlin 21352 ). JPG | Head statue of Nefertiti, Altes Museum, Berlin.

Image: GD-EG-Caire-Musée066. JPG | Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their daughters before the Aten, Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Image: WLA brooklynmuseum Nefertiti ca 1352-1336 BCE. jpg | Nefertiti offering oil to the Aten, Brooklyn Museum.

Image: ReliefFragmentOfNefertitiWithSunDiskOfAten. png | Talatat showing Nefertiti worshipping the Aten, Altes Museum.

Image: WLA brooklynmuseum sandstone Nefertiti. jpg | Relief fragment with Nefertiti, Brooklyn Museum.

Image: Akhenathon and Nefertiti E15593 mp3h8771. jpg | Akhenaten and Nefertiti, Louvre Museum, Paris.

Image: ParapetFragment-NefertitiPresentsMaatToAten BrooklynMuseum. png | Nefertiti presenting an image of the goddess Maat to the Aten, Brooklyn Museum.

Image: AmarnaEra-NefertitAndAkhenatenWorshippingAten-ROM. png | Talatat representing Nefertiti worshipping the Aten, Royal Ontario Museum.

Image: Queen Nefert-iti and Princess Meket-Aten on boundary stela, Tell el-Amarna, 18th Dynasty, 1353-1336 BCE-Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art-DSC08150. JPG | Boundary stele of Amarna with Nefertiti and her daughter, princess Meketaten, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Image: WLA brooklynmuseum Relief of Nefertiti Kissing one of her daughters. jpg | Limestone relief of Nefertiti kissing one of her daughters, Brooklyn Museum.

Image: AmarnaRelief-Nefertiti-LateReliefImage BrooklynMuseum. png | Talatat with an aged Nefertiti, Brooklyn Museum.

File: Nefertiti piercing. jpg | Nefertiti piercing

File: Nofretete Neues Museum. jpg | Bust of Nefertiti.

Thutmose ( sculptor ) | Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti, 1345 BC, Egyptian Museum of Berlin

File: Wiki nefertiti bittidjz. jpg | Queen Nefertiti, was the daughter of Ay, who married Akhenaten.

File: PrincesseAmarna. jpg | Queen Meritaten, was the oldest daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

( The Bust of Nefertiti – a Fraud in Egyptology?

* December 6-'" Bust of Nefertiti " from Tell el-Amarna, Egypt by a German archeological team.

Nefertiti, Egyptian Nfr. t-jy. tj, original pronunciation approximately Nafteta, for (" the beauty has come ").

She is one of the best known Egyptian queens, next to Cleopatra, Nefertiti and Hatshepsut.

Nefertiti ( literally " the beautiful one has come ") was the 14th-century BC Great Royal Wife ( chief consort ) of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.

In 1967, Nefertiti was moved in the Egyptian Museum in Charlottenburg and remained there until 2005, when it was moved to the Altes Museum.

Hitler opposed the idea, and told the Egyptian government that he would build a new Egyptian museum for Nefertiti: " In the middle, this wonder, Nefertiti, will be enthroned, ...

Dr. Hawass has maintained the stance that Egyptian authorities were misled over the acquisition of Nefertiti in 1913.

In 2007, Hawass threatened to ban exhibitions of Egyptian artifacts in Germany if Nefertiti was not lent to Egypt, but to no avail.

According to David Silverman, the Nefertiti bust reflects the classical Egyptian art style, deviating from the " eccentricities " of the Amarna art style, which was developed in Akhenaten's reign.

The Egyptian Minister for Culture, Farouk Hosny, declared that Nefertiti was " not in safe hands ", and although Egypt had not renewed their claims for restitution " due to the good relations with Germany ," this " recent behaviour " was unacceptable.

Zahi Hawass displays a Ptolemaic statue discovered at Taposiris Magna on May 8, 2010Hawass spearheaded a movement to return many prominent unique and / or irregularly taken Ancient Egyptian artifacts, such as the Rosetta Stone, the bust of Nefertiti, the Dendera zodiac ceiling painting from the Dendera Temple, the bust of Ankhhaf ( the architect of the Khafra Pyramid ), the faces of Amenhotep III's tomb at the Louvre Museum, the Luxor Temple's obelisk at the Place de la Concorde and the statue of Hemiunu, nephew of the Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the largest pyramid, to Egypt from collections in various other countries.

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The Croydon Guardian newspaper joked that the originator of this style may have been the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, based on a Channel 4 documentary.

Born as Ankhesenpaaten, she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti, and became the Great Royal Wife of her half-brother Tutankhamun.