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- 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...
- 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...
- Nefertiti Got Extreme Makeover: Researchers
AFP / Google German researchers said Tuesday they have uncovered a second, hidden face within one of ancient Egypt's most treasured artefacts, the bust of legendary beauty Queen Nefertiti. The delicately sculpted face on the interior, revealed when...
- 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....
- German Curatorship Of Nefertiti
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,482217,00.htmlThis article repeats the same story, but adds a section about Germany's curatorship of the Nefertiti bust: German authorities insist their ownership of Nefertiti is irreproachable --...
Egypt
More re Nefertiti's change of face
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Using 21st Century medical computer technology, German researchers have unveiled the "hidden face" below the surface facial features of the famed bust of 18th Dynasty Queen Nefertiti - dispelling once and for all nagging rumours that the bust might be a duplicate made at the orders of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, and that the genuine bust was lost in the chaos following World War II. The researchers from Berlin's Imaging Science Institute at Charite Hospital made a series of CT scans of the bust and confirmed findings of a less sophisticated CT scan 17 years ago which revealed that the sculpture has a limestone core and is covered in layers of plaster-like stucco, called "render" by Egyptologists.
That finding was not new. But what was new is the fact that the new CT scan revealed that the limestone core was carved with such artistic precision that it forms a veritable inner copy of the outer face.
Now the Berlin experts are wondering whether the original artist originally carved the bust in limestone, but then changed his mind and added a plaster glaze which gave the queen softer and more rounded features. The experts say the limestone facial features are a bit more angular.
See the above page for more.
- 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...
- 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...
- Nefertiti Got Extreme Makeover: Researchers
AFP / Google German researchers said Tuesday they have uncovered a second, hidden face within one of ancient Egypt's most treasured artefacts, the bust of legendary beauty Queen Nefertiti. The delicately sculpted face on the interior, revealed when...
- 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....
- German Curatorship Of Nefertiti
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,482217,00.htmlThis article repeats the same story, but adds a section about Germany's curatorship of the Nefertiti bust: German authorities insist their ownership of Nefertiti is irreproachable --...