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  • German Archaeologists Discovered the Iconic Bust of Nefertiti in an Ancient Egyptian Sculptor's Studio...

    02/07/2025 7:08:35 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 27 replies
    Smithsonian Magazine ^ | December 6, 2024 | Eli Wizevich
    ...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...