As a notable exception, only one male pharaoh abandoned the rigid symbolic depiction that had become the style of the most official artwork representing the ruler, Pharaoh Amenhotep IV ( later Akhenaten ) of the same eighteenth dynasty, whose wife, Nefertiti, also may have ruled in her own right following the death of her husband.

The independent scholar Marianne Luban had published similar speculation in 1999 in an article posted on the Internet, entitled " Do We Have the Mummy of Nefertiti?

" Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family " < cite > The Journal of the American Medical Association </ cite > p. 640-641 </ ref > Recent DNA testing had also discovered that she was the daughter of Yuya and Thuya, who were the parents of Queen Tiye, thus ruling her out as Nefertiti .< ref > Hawass, Zahi et al.

She is known to have had a house at Amarna, Akhenaten's new capital and is shown on the walls of the tomb of Huya – a " steward in the house of the king's mother, the great royal wife Tiyi " – depicted at a dinner table with Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their family and then being escorted by the king to her sunshade.

It was found in what had been the sculptor Thutmose's workshop, along with other unfinished busts of Nefertiti.

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.

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.

" Although Stierlin had argued " Egyptians cut shoulders horizontally " – Nefertiti had vertical shoulders, Hawass said that the new style seen in the Nefertiti bust is part of changes introduced by Akhenaten, the husband of Nefertiti.

A small statue of an aging Nefertiti was also found in the workshop, depicting her with a rounded, drooping belly and thick thighs and a curved line at the base of her abdomen showing that she had borne several children, perhaps to project an image of fertility.

Alternatively, it could also mean that he may have had a daughter that married the pharaoh Akhenaten, possibly the father of Akhenaten's chief wife Nefertiti.

By 1934 Chancellor Hitler had decided that Germany would not return the bust of Nefertiti to Egypt, and he announced his intention to use Nefertiti's bust as the central show piece of the Third Reich, in a revitalised capital to be renamed Germania.

Nefertiti appears in many chapters of this young adult novel about her daughter, Ankhsenpaaten, When her name is changed after her father's death, it is spelled Ankhsenamon.

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.

Among many other sculptural items recovered at the same time was the polychrome bust of Nefertiti, apparently a master study for others to copy, which was found on the floor of a storeroom.

Seeking a balanced perspective on the events of that time, which split Egypt politically and religiously, Meriamun gets a letter of introduction from his father to many members of Akhenaten's court, among them the High Priest of Amun, his chief of security Haremhab, and his queen Nefertiti.

Shorter became the group's principal composer, and some of his compositions of this era ( including " Footprints " and " Nefertiti ") have become standards.

He often performed solo works in free verse based on the lives of the grand dames of history, including Lucrezia Borgia, Jocasta, Medea, Lola Montez, Nefertiti, Clytemnestra, and Carlotta, Empress of Mexico.

Much of the finest work, including the famous Nefertiti bust in Berlin, was found in the studio of the second and last Royal Court Sculptor Thutmose, and is now in Berlin and Cairo, with some in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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.

Nefertiti disappears from view somewhat earlier ( around regnal year 14 ); the reasons for this are unclear and under scholarly debate ( see below ).

The latter include the Pase stela ( depicting two figures wearing crowns who are nevertheless identified as a king and queen by the three uninscribed cartouches ); the Berlin 25574 stela ( depicting Akhenaten and Nefertiti but with an extra, fourth, cartouche added to indicate two kings rather than a king and queen ); and in Meryre II's tomb, a scene in which the figures of Akhenaten and Nefertiti are nearly superimposed over each other ( which is interpreted as indicating the oneness of their co-rule ).

These included a full week of stories by an American writer, ( Edgar Allan Poe in 1975, Mark Twain in 1976 ); week-long adaptations of classic novels ( The Last Days of Pompeii in 1980, Les Miserables in 1982 ); and original dramas about historical figures ( Nefertiti in 1979, Alexander the Great in 1981 ).

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.

Nefertiti and her family would have resided in the Great Royal Palace in the center of the city and possibly at the Northern Palace as well.

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.

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.

If she were the mother of Nefertiti she would be expected to have the royal title Mother of the Pharaoh's Great Wife instead, so if Ay was the father of Nefertiti, then Tey would have been her stepmother.

His Great Royal Wife was Tey, Wet Nurse to Queen Nefertiti.

Meritaten was the first of six daughters born to Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife, Nefertiti.

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.

The title of the princess is thought to have been " Ankhesenpaaten-tasherit, born of Ankehenpaaten, born of the King's Great Wife Nefertiti ".

* The Younger Lady who, in June 2003, was controversially claimed to be Nefertiti by British Egyptologist Joann Fletcher, whereas Egypologist Zahi Hawass believed it to be Kiya, another wife of Akhenaten who is believed by some to be the birth mother of Tutankhamun.

* Pauline Gedge: The Twelfth Transforming ( 1984 ), set in the reign of Akhenaten, details the construction of Akhetaten and fictionalized accounts of his sexual relationships with Nefertiti, Tiye and successor Smenkhkare.

* La Reine Soleil ( 2007 animated film by Philippe Leclerc ), features Akhenaten, Tutankhaten ( later Tutankhamun ), Akhesa ( Ankhesenepaten, later Ankhesenamun ), Nefertiti, and Horemheb in a complex struggle pitting the priests of Amun against Akhenaten's intolerant monotheism.

One of the structures, the Mansion of the Benben ( hwt-ben-ben ), was dedicated to Nefertiti.

During Akhenaten's reign ( and perhaps after ), Nefertiti enjoyed unprecedented power.

* Dave Malone in his poem, " A Long Weekend " in Poems to Love and the Body ( Bliss Station, 1998 ; Smashwords, 2010 ), weaves a modern-day love poem with references to Nefertiti, King Akhenaten, and the city, Akhetaten ( Amarna ).

Nefertiti bore six daughters to Akhenaten, one of whom, Ankhesenpaaten ( renamed Ankhesenamun after the suppression of the Aten cult ), married Tutankhamun, Nefertiti's stepson.

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.

In the Italian film Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile ( 1961 ) Nefertiti is in love with the young sculptor Tumos ( Thutmose ), played by Edmund Purdom, who is a friend of prince Amenophis ( Akhenaten ).

) They show the last appearance of the royal family as a whole ( that is: Akhenaten and his chief-queen Nefertiti, together with their six daughters ), which scholars have dated to their satisfaction.

* Thutmose ( sculptor ), Akhenaten's court sculptor at Amarna, to whom is attributed the famous Berlin bust of Nefertiti

He is believed to be connected to the royal family ; he was likely a brother of Queen Tiye ( wife of Amenhotep III ), the father of Nefertiti ( wife of Akhenaten ) and a grandfather of Ankhesenamen ( wife of Tutankhamen ).

The airline was established in 1982 to fly scheduled services between Egypt and Israel ( on routes previously flown by Nefertiti Aviation ), which for political reasons could not be handled by parent company EgyptAir.

* " Nefertiti Maelstrom ", Reader's Letter in KMT 14 / 4 ( 2003 ), pp. 5 – 6

La Reine Soleil, a 2007 animated film by Philippe Leclerc, features Akhenaten, Tutankhaten ( later Tutankhamun ), Akhesa ( Ankhesenepaten, later Ankhesenamun ), Nefertiti, and Horemheb in a complex struggle pitting the priests of Amun against Akhenaten's intolerant monotheism.

It is possible that Nefertiti ruled under another name and, perhaps, was an influence in the royal family until near the end of the rule of Tutankhamun ( 1333-1324 BC ), but if she did, she did not prevent the revival.

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