Berlin marks 100 years of discovering Nefertiti

Hurriyet Daily News ^ | August 30, 2012 | Agence France-Presse

[SunkenCiv]

Berlin's Egyptian Museum has said that it will celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the 3,400-year-old fabled bust of Egypt's Queen Nefertiti amid an ongoing feud with Cairo over its ownership.

The museum said it would open an exhibition on Dec. 6 honoring the famous sculpture and other jewels of the Amarna period in its collection on the German capital's Museum Island.

On the same day in 1912, the bust was unearthed by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt.

"The exhibition focuses on never-before-seen discoveries from the collections of the Berlin museum, supplemented by loans from other museums abroad," it said, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre in Paris and London's British Museum.

Nefertiti, renowned as one of history's great beauties, was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton, remembered for having converted his kingdom to monotheism with the worship of one sun god, Aton. The bust is at the top of a "wish list" of five major artifacts exhibited abroad that Egypt wants returned as part of its cultural heritage. Germany says the sculpture was bought legally by the Prussian state, and that there are documents to prove it. Amarna refers to the ruins of an ancient city founded by Akhenaton, where Borchardt and his team excavated up to 7,000 archaeological objects, about 5,500 of which made their way to Berlin, according to the museum.

The Berlin exhibition, entitled "In the Light of Amarna," will run until April 13, 2013 and feature about 600 of these objects including Akhenaton and Nefertiti's restored thrones with carved floral garlands.

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Egyptian Museum says it will celebrate the centenary of the Nefertiti discovery. AFP Photo

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the "Nefertiti" keyword:

• Found: Queen Nefertiti's Mummy
• Nefertiti mummy 'found in Egypt'
• Teasing The Sun (Nefertiti)
• Did Nefertiti have 'love affair' with Moses?
• Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt [Possibly Nefertiti ... find by American archaeologists]
• Mummy dearest: riddle wrapped in a mystery [Nefertiti, Maya, Ankhesenpamon?] [ KV-63 ]
• Nefertiti book to become movie?
• Neferititi was actually a ‘fascinating' aging beauty
• Amarna: Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun [ U Penn exhibit, open now ]
• 'Hands off my bust' says Egypt prof [If we give this to Egypt for 3 months they won't return it]
• Queen Nefertiti: More Than A Pretty Face
• Grim Secrets Of Pharaoh's City
• Tutankhamun Fetuses To Get Paternity Test
• Bronze Age mouse offers clues to royal shipwreck [ Ulu Burun wreck ]
• Egyptian Queen In Berlin -- Cairo Demands Clarification on Nefertiti Bust
• Famed Nefertiti bust a fake: expert
• When Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns: Egypt contesting German possession of Nefertiti bust
• Nefertiti & the Aten in Colour! 16K Amarna Art Talatat blocks in Luxor w/Original Pigment Preserved
• King Tut statue among missing Egypt treasures, minister says

[aposiopetic]

Will Morsi demand repatriation for the purpose of pulverization?

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[SunkenCiv]

Zahi Hawass was bitching about this a few years ago, but of course, the new regime has kicked his ass out of that job. :’)

[ConorMacNessa]

While I understand the desire for nations to possess their antiquities, I am strongly opposed to Egypt gaining possession of this artifact. The Cadre now in power in Egypt has no connection to the civilization that gave rise to this artifact.

If anything, the Islamists now in charge will regard this as coming from the period before Islam - I can't remember the name of the term now - and accordingly subject to destruction. Don't give it to those bloodthirsty baastards!



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I’d fully support Egypt recovering the Nefertiti bust and all of it’s antiquities if the Islamists in charge could be trusted to keep and display them safely and not blow them up or crush them in the name of Islam or iconoclasm.

[bruinbirdman]

" The bust is at the top of a "wish list" of five major artifacts exhibited abroad that Egypt wants returned "

So, Deutschland might just trade them an Israel busting submarine for the loot.

Germany: Berlin Silent on Report of U-Boat Sale to Egypt

yitbos

[SunkenCiv]

Uh-oh.

A German company sold Egypt the high-powered water pumps (designed for high-res firefighting) that the Egyptian army used in its destruction of Israel’s Bar-Lev line in 1973.

[SunkenCiv]

Screw ‘em, imho.

[Lancey Howard]

I agree with your sentiments completely. The images of the Taliban destroying ancient artifacts and statues in Afghanistan in the late '90s and up until the 9/11 attacks is seared into my brain. Screw Egypt.

Most Pre-Islamic Relics Destroyed, Taliban Says - Los Angeles Times (March 4, 2001)

[MuttTheHoople]

Huh huh huh...you said Nefertitty...huh huh huh

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