Museum marks 100 years since finding queen Nefertiti. Berlin is to honor the centenary of the discovery of a famed bust of Egypt's Queen Nefertiti — one of the city's top tourist attractions ...

The statue of Queen Nefertiti seen during a press preview at the 'Neues Museum' (New Museum) building in Berlin October 15, 2009. As of January 24, 2011, Egypt has formally requested the return of ...

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 ...

For sixty-six years, much of the historic Neues Museum, Berlin's equivalent to the Louvre, was a bombed-out ruin in the heart of the city. Today it will reopen for visitors with a bust of the ...

Egypt’s antiquities chief says if persuasion doesn’t work, he will fight for an ancient bust of Nefertiti that a Berlin museum maintains is too fragile to ever travel. IE 11 is not supported.

When Tim Simon was growing up in Elyria, Ohio, in the 1950s, his stepfather kept a copy of the famous bust of Nefertiti on a coffee table in the living room. Simon didn't think much about the ...

Nefertiti ended up in the west and took up residency in West Berlin's makeshift Egyptian museum in a converted guard house across the street from Charlottenburg Palace. But the bulk of the Berlin ...

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2009 file photo the famous 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti is on display at the "Neues Museum", ( New Museum), in Berlin, Germany. Berlin is to honor the centenary ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than 60 years after it suffered severe bomb damage during the second world war, Berlin’s Neues ...

2003-06-23 04:00:00 PDT Berlin-- To its creators, "The Body of Nefertiti" is simply an attempt to pay homage to a famous pharaonic bust at Berlin's Egyptian Museum. But to Egyptian cultural ...

Calls to repatriate the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum to Greece and the Nefertiti Bust from Berlin's Neues Museum to Egypt have grown in recent years. In February, the Australian government ...