132: Iconic Nefertiti

The Nefertiti bust. How it was made, how it was discovered, and how it wound up in a museum far from its home.

• Date c.1347 BCE and 1912 CE.
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• Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.
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Select Bibliography:

• Arnold, Dorothea. ‘Aspects of the Royal Female Image During the Amarna Period’. In The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt, edited by Dorothea Arnold, 85–120. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.
• Arnold, Dorothea. ‘The Workshop of the Sculptor Thutmose’. In The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt, edited by Dorothea Arnold, 41–84. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.
• ‘Did Germany Cheat to Get Bust of Nefertiti?’, 10 February 2009. https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/archaeological-controversy-did-germany-cheat-to-get-bust-of-nefertiti-a-606525.html.
• Robins, Gay. The Art of Ancient Egypt. London: The British Museum Press, 1997.
• Tyldesley, Joyce. Nefertiti’s Face: The Creation of an Icon. London: Profile Books, 2018.

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