Egypt
- 1.2 Million Visitors Admired Nefertiti In The Last Year
Monsters and Critics The bust of ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti, whose ownership is a point of dispute between Germany and Egypt, has drawn some 1.2 million visitors since the Neues Museum where it is displayed re-opened last year, museum officials...
- Cool Response From Berlin To Egypt's Official Nefertiti Request
Monsters and Critics Berlin responded cooly on Friday to renewed demands from Cairo that the prized bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti should be returned to its country of origin from its current home in a Berlin museum. 'A request from Egypt to return...
- 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...
- Berlin's Museum Island Gets A Facelift
http://tinyurl.com/d4g9z A very short article that mentions improvements at the Berlin Museum that houses the Berlin Egyptology collection: "Renovation work continues on the galleries of Berlin's Museum Island, located between the River Spree and...
- Return Of The Neues
Here we have a view of the original Egyptian court destroyed in the second world war. The neoclassical Neues museum was designed by architect Friedrich August Stuler and opened on Berlin's museum island in 1855 having taken more than a dozen...
Egypt
Nefertiti returns to Island home
http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/qtakes/cl-et-quick13.3aug13,0,3379375.story
"A famous bust of Egyptian queen Nefertiti has returned to Berlin's Museum Island, 66 years after being evacuated at the outbreak of World War II. Ever since its first public exhibition in 1923, the cool precision of the 3,300-year-old sculpture's symmetrical lines and its finely wrought features have drawn thousands of admirers from around the globe. The artwork spent most of the last 40 years in Berlin's Egyptian Museum".
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- 1.2 Million Visitors Admired Nefertiti In The Last Year
Monsters and Critics The bust of ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti, whose ownership is a point of dispute between Germany and Egypt, has drawn some 1.2 million visitors since the Neues Museum where it is displayed re-opened last year, museum officials...
- Cool Response From Berlin To Egypt's Official Nefertiti Request
Monsters and Critics Berlin responded cooly on Friday to renewed demands from Cairo that the prized bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti should be returned to its country of origin from its current home in a Berlin museum. 'A request from Egypt to return...
- 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...
- Berlin's Museum Island Gets A Facelift
http://tinyurl.com/d4g9z A very short article that mentions improvements at the Berlin Museum that houses the Berlin Egyptology collection: "Renovation work continues on the galleries of Berlin's Museum Island, located between the River Spree and...
- Return Of The Neues
Here we have a view of the original Egyptian court destroyed in the second world war. The neoclassical Neues museum was designed by architect Friedrich August Stuler and opened on Berlin's museum island in 1855 having taken more than a dozen...