Nevine El-Aref, Saturday 1 Sep 2012. As Germany celebrates the centennial anniversary of the discovery of the iconic bust of the beautiful Queen Nefertiti, Egypt's argument for its return includes ...

It depicts Queen Nefertiti, whose name means «the beautiful has arrived,” with full red lips, a graceful, elongated neck decorated with the vibrant colours of a necklace, and a tall, blue flat ...

Ritual ‘retirement’ rather than family feud might explain why so many figures of the female pharaoh are broken and cracked.

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor ...

Exclusive Pictures From Inside the Scan of King Tut's Tomb. ... who argued that the tomb of Tutankhamun may in fact also still contain the as-of-yet undiscovered burial place of Nefertiti.

A recent study challenges the long-held belief that Queen Hatshepsut's statues were destroyed out of spite by Thutmose III.