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Hatshepsut in Berlin a fake?
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An Egyptian bust acquired at vast expense by a Berlin museum over two decades ago may be a forgery, according to the German news magazine Der Spiegel on Sunday. The bust in brown granite of female Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt for 22 years, is one of the draws at the German capital's Egyptian Museum, and is only outshone by the limestone bust of exquisite Queen Nefertiti.
The magazine said scientists at the Technical University of Berlin had discovered the Hatshepsut stone was rich in the minerals magnesite and siderite.No other bust from the Nile region was made of such rock, suggesting that the 16.5-centimetre-high figure might be a modern fake, according to the magazine.
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Una de las obras más valiosas del Museo Egipcio de Berlín, la cabeza de la faraona Hatshepsut, podría ser una falsificación, según un informe realizado por la Universidad Técnica de Berlín, que con ello alimenta una sospecha que circula desde hace tiempo entre los círculos de expertos.
Según el citado documento, del que informa el semanario alemán "Der Spiegel" en su edición de mañana, hay muchos indicios que apuntan a que la escultura egipcia no es de "granito pardusco" como se describe en el catálogo sino de un material hasta ahora desconocido en esculturas del Nilo.
En las pruebas realizadas se ha hallado una sustancia que podría caracterizarse de "sintética", algo que en la industria de la construcción se utiliza como argamasa o gres calcáreo.
Hija de Tutmosis I, esposa de Tutmosis II y madrastra de Tutmosis III, Hatshepsut, cuyo nombre significa "la unidad de Amón delante de los nobles", fue la reina-faraón que gobernó durante más tiempo (1502-1482 a.c.) en el Antiguo Egipto.
Su momia fue descubierta hace tan sólo dos años en el tercer piso del Museo de Antigüedades Egipcias de El Cairo, donde fue identificada gracias al análisis de una muela.
Comparada tan sólo con Cleopatra, fue la primer mujer que reinó en el Nilo hace 3.500 años y bajo su reinado se construyeron cuatro de los obeliscos más altos de Egipto o el complejo de templos funerarios Deir-el-Bahari.
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Asked for comment, Dieter Wildung, the recently retired director of the museum, said he had not been aware of the scientific study.
The museum reportedly paid 1 million marks (R5.9 million) to buy the statue in 1986 from Robin Symes of Britain but Wildung declined to confirm its price.
"The purchase was long before my time," said Wildung, who became head of the museum in 1989 and retired two weeks ago. He criticised the media for "sneakily" going public with the report without clearance from the museum.
Hatshepsut died in 1458 BC. The Berlin museum has been criticised by Cairo officials for refusing to give Nefertiti's bust, regarded as a national treasure, back to Egypt. -
See the above pages for more.
- New Book: Hatshepsut, De Reina A Faraón De Egipto
Tendencias21 (Francisco J. Martín Valentín and Teresa Bedman ) Announcement and commentary by the authors. Acabamos de publicar un nuevo libro con el título 'Hatshepsut, de reina a Faraón de Egipto' en el que se ofrece un nuevo perfil biográfico...
- Hawass In Seville
adn.es Thanks to Amigos de la Egiptologia for highlighting this story. Hawass is participating in a seminaar about Egyptology in Seville in Spain, and has taken the opportunity of a press conference to make various points. First, he has asked the Berlin...
- Berlin Defends Authenticity Of Nefertiti Bust
Well there's a surprise! The Guardian, UK (Kate Connolly) In his book, Le Buste de Nefertiti – une Imposture de l'Egyptologie? (The Bust of Nefertiti – an Egyptology Fraud?), Stierlin has claimed that the bust was created to test ancient...
- More Re Wrinkles Found On The Nefertiti Bust
Expatica Maybe wrinkles are not so bad after all, some German scientists have discovered. In ancient times, such laugh lines and wrinkles around the mouth improved the face of Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen acclaimed as the world's most beautiful woman....
- Nefertiti Had Wrinkles
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