Bust of Nefertiti in Neues Museum, BerlinPhilip Pikart via Wikimedia Commons under CC 3.0
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 ...
Bust of Nefertiti in Neues Museum, BerlinPhilip Pikart via Wikimedia Commons under CC 3.0
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Egyptian archaeologist urges German museum to return Nefertiti's bust | 1:46 | Al Jazeera English | 15.2M subscribers | 18,261 views | September 8, 2024
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High cheekbones! Have we heard from Lizzie Warren yet? Does Lizzie remember the Egyptian recipes her gr-gramma used to make from the family cookbook?
but i thought we wuz kangs
Who knows...Native Americans could have been Egyptian.
I thought she was Supposed to be a beautiful busty woman ?
I saw nothing.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/busty-woman.html?sortBy=relevant
There’s a school of thought (not a big school) saying the iconic bust is a modern fake.
It seems in keeping with the Amarna style, though, realism in sculpture.
The utmost from Thutmose.
I have a little bronze Nefertiti. It’s about 30 years old, so not an antique quite yet.
Um, that was Nefert$tty.
Around here there used to be some kind of half-ash tray of zinc or some other base metal, the head of Nefertiti stickin’ up. Some friends or relatives of one of my parents brought it back from Egypt. Hmm. Now I wonder if it got tossed, one of the tiny legs crumbled off it.
It looked a little better than this one, but I doubt ours was made of brass:
https://bid.schmalzauctions.com/Unique-vintage-solid-brass-Egyptian-Nefertiti-ashtray_i47895705
Yeah, “fake” has been shouted about the Phaistos Disk, the Minoan “snake goddess”, the treasure from Troy. The Nefertiti bust has been Xrayed or somethin’ (possibly a link up above) showing it had been carved first, then more artfully plastered and painted. There was a German guy I think, who claimed it was a classic fake because one of the eye insets was missing and never found in the sift at the site. I suppose he’d say the same thing if neither inset, or both insets, were present. :^)
And the Lady of Elche, which actually does look a little too contemporary (1890's) to be true.
Truly one of the greatest pieces of art in the world
Looks like she might had bulimia? Good lookin though. I’m sure the sculptEr got a good likeness, or else lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_Elche#Contentions_of_forgery
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