BUST OF NEFERTITI (BERLIN, GERMANY 2008)

(From my personal digital image files, year 2008)

 

There are many pages written about Queen Neferu Aton Nefertiti, (Aten's Kindness: Beauty has come).

 

She was the wife of the controversial pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) who ruled Egypt more than 3,300 years ago.

 

This bust is currently exhibited in the New Berlin Museum, Neues Museum, Museum Island, but by the time this picture was taken, "she" was in the Old Museum (Altes Museum), where it was possible to take pictures of "her".

 

Apparently, according to one of the theories, it seems that it is a bust that the art teachers presented to their students to make their replicas in a place that was probably an art school, which today is demolished, in the city now called Tell el-Amarna.

 

It is possibly an idealization of beauty. It survived almost miraculously the bombings of World War II and was protected in several places, among others, one of the anti-aircraft artillery towers of the Zoo (Flakturm G), also the Merkers-Kieselbach salt mine.

 

At present it is formally claimed by the Government of Egypt.

 

(Source: Wikipedia)

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