The book - Nefertiti's Face: the Creation of an Icon, published by Profile Books next week (25 January) – tells the story of the famous sculpture from its creation to its display today in Berlin. The ...
The queen, she noted, defied “so much of the history of the Western perception ... much of her life remains a mystery — a gap that allows her persona to be molded into whatever icon society needs at ...
The queen, she noted, defied “so much of ... whatever icon society needs at any given time. As the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, Nefertiti played a major role in Egyptian politics.
Nefertiti was one of the wives of Tutankhamun's father, the Pharaoh Akhenaten. El-Damaty said it was too early to tell what the metal and organic material could be, saying only that he thinks the ...
The king has been portrayed as a proto-Christian ... and they began to portray Akhenaten and his queen, Nefertiti, in unusually natural and intimate poses. Often the royal couple would be shown ...