One hundred years ago, in a courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the world came face to face for the first time with one of its most enduring beauty icons: Queen Nefertiti. Discovered in Egypt ...

The Nefertiti bust has been on permanent display at the Neues Museum (New Museum) in Berlin, Germany ever since. It remains one of the most famous and prized Egyptian archaeological discoveries of ...

Hawass added that he sent a letter in 2010 to the Berlin Museum, the British Museum, and the Louvre Museum requesting the borrowing of three artifacts: Nefertiti’s head, the Rosetta Stone, and the ...

Back in 1912, the excavation was financed by a Berlin philanthropist, James Simon. Nefertiti's bust was then taken to Germany under the terms of an agreement reached in 1913. According to both museum ...

Nefertiti's famous painted limestone bust was uncovered at Tell el-Amarna, around 300 km (185 miles) south of Cairo, in 1912 by a German archaeological mission, which shipped it to Berlin the ...

Life-sized painted bust of the queen, 47 cm high. With the flat-cut blue wig, which also has a ribbon wrapped around it halfway up,” Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt wrote in his diary on December 6, ...

Nefertiti’s famous painted limestone bust was uncovered at Tell el-Amarna, around 300km south of Cairo, in 1912 by a German archaeological mission, which shipped it to Berlin the following year.

A petition launched early last month calling for the repatriation of a bust depicting the Ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti from Berlin’s Neues Museum has reached nearly 10,000 signatures.

Berlin museums might house the iconic Nefertiti bust, the Ishtar gate of ancient Babylon or Rembrandt masterpieces, but they still trail global counterparts in popularity -- and the coronavirus is ...

In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, a 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti is displayed at the New Museum in Berlin, Germany. (AP) ...