Posted on 02/07/2025 7:08:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv
...Tell el-Amarna, also known as Akhetaton, captured the imaginations of Borchardt and the European archaeological community around the turn of the century as the capital city built under Akhenaten...
In 1911, Borchardt won the support of James Simon, a wealthy art collector who founded the German Oriental Society, to finance an excavation...
Previous expeditions had already mapped the ancient city completely. But Borchardt and his team soon focused their attention on a modest, still-unexplored workshop belonging to Thutmose, a sculptor.
On the day the archaeologists found the Nefertiti bust, German nobles from Saxony were visiting Tell el-Amarna, and Borchardt dashed between his honorable guests and the excavation...
As Borchardt approached Thutmose's workshop, "the tools were put aside, and the hands were now used," he wrote. "It took a considerable amount of time until the whole piece was completely freed from all the dirt and rubble."
...Aside from a brief stint in a Thuringian salt mine for safekeeping during World War II, the bust has more or less stayed put since its 1923 unveiling...
Zahi Hawass, a prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former Egyptian tourism and antiquities minister, maintains the bust "left Egypt illegally."
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
The Nefertiti bust is probably the best-known piece of ancient art in the world, with the gold mask of Tut a close second, and both are from the late 18th dynasty.
Foret time I’ve seen the nef bust. And I am an art lover too- it appears she was quite thin- almost anorexic thin-
It doesn’t show her bust at all!!
guess we wuznt qweens
The ancient Egyptians were caucasian with a European look.
I remember this. Very famous,
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