German excavators discovered the famous bust of Nefertiti in Egypt 100 years ago. ... Magnificent statues and portraits were brought out, depicting faces full of exhilaration and life.

Amy Davidson writes about a new theory, by the Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves, that Nefertiti is buried in a hidden chamber in King Tut’s tomb.

Nevertheless, scattered clues outline an intriguing portrait. Nefertiti served as queen alongside her husband, King Akhenaten, during his seventeen-year tenure in the fourteenth century BCE; she ...

Numerous sculptures and reliefs survive of Nefertiti, who ruled as queen and then as king with her husband, including many portraits from the end of the Amarna Period when the art style favoured a ...

It is thought that the bust would have been used as a model for artists creating portraits of the queen. Nefertiti was the wife of King Akhenaton, who ruled Egypt between 1353 and 1336 B.C. during ...

Egypt formally demanded the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, ... He deliberately described the artwork as the portrait of a royal princess made of plaster, ...

It is a piece of funerary artwork variously identified by scholars as Queen Nefertiti or Queen Tiye, but it might be neither. The portrait’s provenance, like most of its original material, is ...

Meanwhile, the younger figure seems to have the same plump features and double chin as other portraits of the young King Tut. Nefertiti, not Tut, is the one being honored here, Reeves says.

After years of refusal and controversy, German cultural authorities allowed artist and designer Cosmo Wenman to publish scans of the 3,364-year-old bust under a Creative Commons license.