Although she is one of ancient history’s most recognizable ... As the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, Nefertiti played a major role in Egyptian politics. Together, the pair led a religious revolution ...

The controversy started at an excavation of an ancient city ... had the most lifelike Egyptian work of art in our hands.” The Germans were intent on keeping Nefertiti in their hands, too.

The city was founded by Akhenaten, a king who, along with his wife Nefertiti and his son, Tutankhamun, has captured the modern imagination as much as any other figure from ancient Egypt.

She was renowned for her beauty and made famous by her bust, which was discovered in 1912 in the workshop of an Ancient Egyptian sculptor. Nefertiti and her husband were behind a religious revolution.

An ancient capital ... the heretic King Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti around 1336 B.C. for reasons that are unknown. DeAgostini/Getty Images Once Egypt's largest city, it dates back to King ...

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Queen Nefertiti's bust is a tourist magnet in Berlin, but there are arguments about repatriation.

An approximately 3,500-year-old settlement was discovered in Egypt in Kom el-Negus, located about 27 miles west of Alexandria.

The Nefertiti Statement Earrings honor the iconic queen with luminous mother-of-pearl in rhombus-shaped gold, evoking her allure through the central eye motif. In ancient Egypt, mother-of-pearl ...