Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
As usual Nevine El-Aref has provided a good summary of a widely reported story:
See the above page for the full story.
- Nefertiti Again, 100 Years On
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) It seems that there is no foreseeable resolution to the long conflict between Germany and Egypt over ownership of the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, wife of the monotheistic pharaoh Akhenaten. Now, a century after...
- Nefertiti Revisited
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) The conflict between Egypt and Germany over the 3,400-year-old iconic bust of Queen Nefertiti has again come to the fore following the discovery of a 1924 document revealing the mysterious story behind Germany's possession...
- More Re Face Beneath The Face Of Nefertiti
The Independent (Andrew Johnson) Her name is synonymous with beauty; and unlike history's other renowned women, such as Helen of Troy, we don't have to take the classical historians' word for it. Nefertiti's reputation rests on hard evidence...
- How Deceit Won A Beautiful Woman
Al Ahram Weekly Can a 1924 document charging German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt with cheating to secure the Nefertiti bust for Germany guarantee its return to Egypt? Nevine El-Aref investigates Bust of Queen Nefertiti The conflict between Egypt and...
- New View Of Nefertiti Bust
http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/20224.aspx "Discovered in 1912 at Tel-El-Amarna in what used to be the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose, the bust – depicting a woman with a long neck, elegantly arched brows, high cheekbones, a slender nose and an enigmatic...
Egypt
More re Nefertiti "makeover"
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
As usual Nevine El-Aref has provided a good summary of a widely reported story:
Since it was discovered in 1912 by the German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt, the painted bust of Nefertiti, excavated from the studio of the sculptor Tuthmosis, has been an icon of female perfection. When it was exhibited to the public for the first time in 1923 it drew thousands of admirers who marvelled at the symmetrical features of Akhenaten's queen.
The bust shows a woman with a long neck, elegantly arched brows, high cheekbones, a slender nose and a smile drawn on her red lips. Recent CT scans carried out by a German team of researchers led by Alexander Huppertz, director of the Imaging Science Institute at Berlin's Charite Hospital and Medical School, however, indicate the royal image may well have been touched up. According to a report published last week in the monthly journal of the Radiology Society of North America, the Nefertiti bust has two faces, one on top of the other.
Huppertz's team has discovered that the stone core of the bust is a detailed sculpture of the queen. "The hypothesis was that the stone underneath was just a support," he says.
The differences between the faces, though slight -- creases at the corners of the mouth and a bump on the nose of the stone version -- have led Huppertz to suggest that the statue was altered on the express orders of someone when royal sculptors immortalised the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten 3,300 years ago.
See the above page for the full story.
- Nefertiti Again, 100 Years On
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) It seems that there is no foreseeable resolution to the long conflict between Germany and Egypt over ownership of the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, wife of the monotheistic pharaoh Akhenaten. Now, a century after...
- Nefertiti Revisited
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) The conflict between Egypt and Germany over the 3,400-year-old iconic bust of Queen Nefertiti has again come to the fore following the discovery of a 1924 document revealing the mysterious story behind Germany's possession...
- More Re Face Beneath The Face Of Nefertiti
The Independent (Andrew Johnson) Her name is synonymous with beauty; and unlike history's other renowned women, such as Helen of Troy, we don't have to take the classical historians' word for it. Nefertiti's reputation rests on hard evidence...
- How Deceit Won A Beautiful Woman
Al Ahram Weekly Can a 1924 document charging German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt with cheating to secure the Nefertiti bust for Germany guarantee its return to Egypt? Nevine El-Aref investigates Bust of Queen Nefertiti The conflict between Egypt and...
- New View Of Nefertiti Bust
http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/20224.aspx "Discovered in 1912 at Tel-El-Amarna in what used to be the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose, the bust – depicting a woman with a long neck, elegantly arched brows, high cheekbones, a slender nose and an enigmatic...