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, ...

Meanwhile, in Black culture, Nefertiti has been embraced as a symbol of power, with contemporary figures like Beyoncé and Rihanna drawing from her image. Rihanna reveals a glimpse of her ...

The concerns of the modern masters were deep waters – this Nefertiti is a shallow puddle of pastiche. The real Nefertiti was Akhenaten’s queen and is especially remembered for her diminutive but ...

However, upon Queen Tiye’s (Nefertiti’s mother-in-law) arrival in Amarna, Nefertiti completely withdrew from public life, living separately from Akhenaten in her palace with her daughters. Scientists ...

STRANGE echoes, indentations and touched-up artwork inside Tutankhamun’s famous tomb have revealed secret chambers that may belong to his notorious mother — Queen Nefertiti.

Merytaton was the daughter of the pharaoh Akhenaten (reign 1349 to 1336 B.C.) and his wife Nefertiti. Akhenaten unleashed a religious revolution that tried to focus Egypt's religion around the ...

An excerpt from Eyeliner: A Cultural History details the history of the elusive Egyptian queen, and the everlasting allure of her kohl rimmed eyes.

Last Friday, at the Goethe-Institut in Cairo, Hany El-Metennawy’s theatre troupe El-Shanta (or ‘The Bag’), which he founded, staged the premiere of Nefertiti: Queen of the City of Light, a ...