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Nefertiti “Summit” held at Cairo
Image via Wikipedia A meeting was held today at the offices of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, where Dr. Friederike Seyfried, Director of the Aegyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung in Berlin, presented Dr. Hawass with copies of all of the key documentation held by the Berlin Museum concerning the discovery and removal from Egypt of the... »
Bust of Nefertiti returns to newly restored Neues Museum
The ancient Egyptian bust of Queen Nefertiti has been moved back to the Berlin museum which exhibited it before the Second World War, culture officials said Monday. The Neues Museum where it was exhibited was wrecked when the Red Army invaded Berlin in 1945, but the limestone bust had been placed two years previously in... »
Hatshepsut bust in Berlin may be fake
A bust in brown granite of female Pharaoh Hatshepsut, acquired by a Berlin museum more than two decades ago, may be a forgery. Scientists at the Technical University of Berlin have discovered the Hatshepsut stone is rich in the minerals magnesite and siderite. No other bust from the Nile region is made of such rock,... »
Berlin’s Neues Museum announces re-opening
After more than 60 years in ruins, the Neues Museum (New Museum) on Berlin’s Museum Island is scheduled to re-open its doors on October 16, 2009. The re-opening completes the decade long, 200 million Euro restoration project, marking the third major milestone in the overall restoration of the five renowned museums that make up... »
Simon says…
Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife I have purposely not mentioned anything about the debate regarding the authenticity of the bust of Nefertiti, as this sort of superfluous information is, in my opinion, more intended to sell copy than to inquire for the truth. This article, however, has some very useful information about the statue and... »
“Restoring the Archaeological Treasures” at Berlin's Altes Museum
The iconic bust of Nefertiti, the pharaoh’s powerful spouse who was considered the most beautiful woman in the world in her time, is the clear celebrity participant at the Altes Museum’s “Restoring the Archaeological Treasures” exhibit. The “Berlin Green Head”, a mysterious bust that dates from around 400 to 500 B.C., is among other notable... »
First look: Neues Museum in Berlin
The Neues Museum is Germany’s equivalent of the Louvre. It will house Berlin’s Egyptian collection, including the famous bust of Queen Nefertiti. Built between 1841 and 1859, the Neues Museum was left to decay after suffering bomb damage in World War II. Chipperfield’s approach to conserve everything that remained without replicating what was destroyed, filling... »
Akhenaten and Nefertiti Exhibition in Erbach, Germany
Image via Wikipedia In cooperation with Berlin’s world-famous Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, the Deutsches Elfenbeinmuseum Erbach (Erbach German Ivory Museum) presents Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Rulers in the Divine Light (April 3-August 9, 2009). Some 70 works of art from Egypt’s Amarna Period are superbly displayed, each produced during the 17-year reign of the enigmatic... »
