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. Then ...

But the story of how the bust of Nefertiti found its way to Berlin in the first place is mired in controversy. After being transported to Europe in 1913, one year after its discovery in Egypt ...

Nefertiti was the wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, and had six daughters by him. She was renowned for her beauty and made famous by her bust, which was discovered in 1912 in the workshop of ...