Renowned Egyptologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has revived an initiative to repatriate the 3400-year-old Bust of Queen Nefertiti, launching an international petition calling for ...

Nefertiti, stepmother of boy king Tutankhamun, ruled Egypt from 1353BC to 1336BC with her husband, the pharaoh Akhenaten. He established his own religion, arousing the wrath of his people.