Only living into her mid-20s, Ankhesenamun became the Queen of Egypt during the 18th Dynasty when she married King Tut.

It was transported to Berlin a year later. Akhenaten, also known as the heretic king, came to promote the worship of Aten over other Egyptian gods during his reign, which lasted until 1335 B.C ...

The bust was sent to Berlin the following year, according to Ziare. The ancient city of Amarna briefly served as the capital of Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten, Nefertiti's husband ...

The bust of Nefertiti was found in Egypt in 1912 at Tell el-Amarna, the short-lived capital of Akhenaten. It is now housed in Berlin's Neues Museum. ...

Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues Museum in Berlin.

Akhenaten’s revolution was short-lived ... The bust is now in the Neues Museum in Berlin. Borchardt discovered the bust while excavating inside the workshop of a court sculptor.

Akhenaten established Akhetaton as a new capital ... in protest to send a symbolic message about Nefertiti's presence in Berlin. Egyptologist Wassim El-Sisi explained in a telephone interview ...

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 ...

Nefertiti lived between 1370 and 1330 BCE. She was step-mother to King Tut and wife to Pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled over a prosperous period. According to National Geographic, Akhenaten converted ...

Nefertiti's face was carved in limestone by the court sculptor Thutmos, in 1340 B.C. (Image credit: Cosmo Wenman, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Nefertiti is well-known today for a life-size bust that shows her ...

Akhenaten established Akhetaton as a new capital city during the mid-14th century BC. Nefertiti played an important role as his royal consort and may have ruled as pharaoh after his death.