beautiful woman Nefertiti

Look at the beautiful "Nefertiti" whose name means "beautiful woman has begun," he said that it was one of the most powerful women in ancient Egypt, has been found to dig near the Tomb of King Tutankhamen, son of her husband "sarcophagus", who ruled Egypt in the 14th century BC.

It was to Nevirtity -it belongs to the family of eighth before Christmas in Pharaonic Egypt, lived in the fourteenth century BC - stature during the rule of her husband "Pharaoh Amenhotep IV" or "Amenhotep IV", known as the "sarcophagus", like what happened with her husband, whose name has been erased from historical records and has been distorted forms after her death.

It is well known that Nefertiti was not conducted in the veins of Her Royal Blood, but it was linked to the palace, in a way, the Nefertiti supports her husband during his revolution religious, social, and then moved with him to the city of "akhytatwn" or Tel Amarna, to worship God "furnace", where he played a key role in the dissemination of new concepts of her husband, appeared with him during the celebrations and rituals, family and breathtaking bay and countryside views, as well as in traditional views military campaigns, which portrayed the Queen and the elimination of the enemy, this can be seen on the walls of temples and tombs furnace supervision in Tel Amarna.

She was one of her daughters, "mykyt-furnace", the pictures of their grief in some wall paintings, after the death of her daughter, Nefertiti disappeared from the Royal Court, and has been replaced by her daughter "Merritt furnace" replaced, and got the title of the wife's great property.look to the beautiful ainfrtytyai whose name means beautiful aialmraah had aqbltaiaila it was one of the most powerful women in ancient Egypt, and was found to dig near the Tomb of King Tutankhamen, son of her husband aiakhnatwnai, who ruled Egypt in the 14th century BC.

The Nefertiti died in the fourth year of ten rule of Akhnaton, and could have been buried in mass graves in its cemetery as property, in Tel Amarna, but has not been found on the mummy, until now. The scarcity of information available on the beautiful queen to this role played by Akhenaton, in the rebellion of the gods, and a return to the doctrine of Tawhid, which focused on the sun god "furnace", which called for following families to work to erase all the bakhnatwn and his wife beautiful "Nefertiti".

The credit for the discovery of magnificent statue of Queen pharaonic, to German archeologists who found during excavations carried out in the year 1912 in the area of Tel el-Amarna just", was to maintain this statue in Berlin museum after restoration.

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Life of queen nefertiti

 In the fourth year of his reign (1346 BC) Amenhotep IV decides to move the capital to Akhetaten (modern Amarna).In his fifth year, Amenhotep IV officially changed his name to Akhenaten and Nefertiti would henceforth be known as Neferneferuaten-NefertitiInscriptions in the tombs of Huya and Meryre II dated to Year 12, 2nd month of Peret, Day 8 show a large foreign tribute.Meketaten may have died in year 13 or Nefertiti, 

Akhenaten and three princesses are shown mourning Meketaten.One of the structures, the Mansion of the Benben (hwt-ben-ben), was dedicated to Nefertiti.He would have been in charge of running her household.The king and queen are shown worshiping the Aten.She is shown smiting the enemy and captive enemies decorate her throne.In the damaged tomb (TT188) of the royal butler Parennefer the new king Amenhotep IV is accompanied by a royal woman, and this lady is thought to be an early depiction of Nefertiti.In the tomb of Meryre II, Nefertiti’s steward, 

Nefertiti always and forever

This was the first tomb ever opened in which the Pharaoh was still in his original resting place, and, moreover, 11 other mummies were also discovered in a sealed chamber in the tomb; 11 in all, nine belonging to members of the royalty family.One of the others, a female who had managed to retain her remarkable beauty, became known among Egyptologists as the "Elder Lady" and was identified as queen Tiye, the chief wife of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

Think of the tight-fitting, tall blue crown worn by Nefertiti, something that would have required a shaven head to fit properly," said Fletcher.Back in 1898, the French Egyptologist Victor Loret excavated the tomb of Amenhotep II on the Theban necropolis and came upon a remarkable find.Others express doubt that the remains are those of the legendary queen of beauty.Egyptologist Susan James, who trained at Cambridge University and who spent a long time studying the three mummies, told Discovery Channel, who financed the expedition, " What we know about mummy 61072 would indicate that it is one of the young females of the late 18th dynasty, very probably a member of the royal family.

However, early last week, Fletcher asserted that it was indeed Queen Nefertiti.Elaborating on his scepticism about the mummy being that of Nefertiti, Hawass told the Weekly that X-ray analysis carried out previously by himself and Egyptologist Kent Weeks indicated that it was the body of a 16-year-old girl, whereas Nefertiti is thought to have died in her 30s.He accuses Fletcher of lacking in experience, as "a new PhD recipient", and told Al-Ahram Weekly that Fletcher's theory was not based on facts or solid evidence, "only on facial resemblance between the mummy and Nefertiti's bust, and on artistic representations of the Amarna period in which the queen lived".He explained that,

 "Nefertiti was involved in the assassination of her husband's successor, Smenkhare, and was later in conflict with King Horemhab who overthrew the monotheistic cult of his predecessor and erased all traces of it.After this she continued to appear in reliefs, though outshone to some extent by other royal favourites like Kiya and her own eldest daughter Mereaten.She said that the mummy had deteriorated badly; that the skull was pierced with a large hole, and the chest hacked away.There is a puzzle," she conceded, and explained that in 1907, when Egyptologist Grafton Elliot Smith first examined the three mummies,

 he reported that the Younger Lady was lacking a right arm.Fletcher's assertion, released on the Discovery Channel's Web site, placed considerable stress on these particular characteristics of the mummy -- the brow-band over the foreheads of Egyptian rulers, and a double-pierced ear of the mummy, which she stressed can also be seen on busts of the queen and one of her daughters.A mummy of the young prince, not identified, bears a facial resemblance to that of Tiye's mummy, suggesting it could be Prince Thutmose, the eldest son of Amenhotep III.Nefertiti was a high-profile queen, who, incidentally, appeared nearly twice as often in reliefs as her husband, the king, during the first five years of his reign.

Eight of the mummies were transferred to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and three were left in situ due to their critical state of preservation.Filed under catalogue number 61072, Fletcher was able to locate this mummy, along with the other two mummies lying on the floor of a side chamber of the tomb of Amenhotep II.And as for the third mummy, known as the "Younger Lady", the Egyptologists sway between the lovely queen Nefertiti and Princess Sitamun, a daughter of Amenhotep III (whom he may also have married and who would perhaps have been interred with her mother, Tiye).Without any comparative DNA studies, statements of certainty are wishful thinking.They also noticed a woman's severed arm beneath the remaining wrappings.

Salima Ikram, author of The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the for Eternity, sees the identification as "interesting" and one that will doubtless cause endless speculation.Hawass asserted, moreover, that the physical resemblance is not significant, "because all the statues of the Amarna era have the same characteristics.Horemhab would never have allowed Queen Nefertari to be buried in the Valley of Kings," he concluded.In the latter years of the Akhenaten's reign, however, she disappeared from the scene.

For the second time in a week, the 18th-dynasty queen, Nefertiti, has been making headlines, and has again been the subject of much discussion.Worse still, the face, which would otherwise have been excellently preserved, had been cruelly mutilated, the mouth and cheek no more than a gaping hole.Nearby, however, he had found a detached right forearm, bent at the elbow and with clenched fingers.In fact, they are divided into two schools of thought.Some research was carried out at an early stage to verify whether the mummy of the Younger Lady was, in fact, Nefertiti, but to no avail.For his part, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawass totally refutes the idea, and describes it as "pure fiction".

After the incident in the Berlin Museum, in which the famous painted limestone bust of the queen was placed on top of a modern bronze female statue, Joanne Fletcher, a mummification expert from the University of York in England, announced that she and her team may have identified the actual mummy of the queen.This, she claimed, suggested the strong possibility of the link.Mamdouh El-Damati, director of the Egyptian Museum, mentioned that this theory was not new, this being the second time that a claim to have discovered Nefertiti's mummy within this group of mummies had been made.If true, it would certainly have some wide- ranging implications for Egyptology.

One of this trio of mummies is now thought to be that of Nefertiti.Following Discovery Channel's coverage of the events, the identification of the Younger Lady's mummy as Nefertiti immediately attracted an eager audience and made headlines around the world.However, physical evidence known and published prior to this expedition indicates the unlikelihood of this being the mummy of Nefertiti.

She was drawn to the tomb during an expedition in June 2002 when, after identifying a Nubian-style wig worn by royal women during Akhenaten's reign, she identified a similar wig found near three unidentified mummies.This is, of course, mere speculation.So whether or not the mummy is indeed that of the beautiful queen, the dearth of convincing evidence means this may remain one of Ancient Egypt's most enthralling and enduring mysteries.Further examination using cutting- edge Canon digital X-ray machinery, the team spotted jewellery within the smashed chest cavity of the mummy.Apart from the similarity in physiognomy, and the swan-like neck of the mummy that bears a resemblance to Nefertiti's beautiful face as immortalised in the limestone bust in Berlin,

 Fletcher pointed to other clues to support her hypothesis: a doubled- pierced ear lobe, which she claims was a rare fashion statement in Ancient Egypt; a shaven head; and the clear impression of the tight-fitting brow-band worn by royalty.Amarna art was idealistic and not realistic," he said, and pointed out that in the Egyptian Museum, there were five of six mummies with the same characteristics.But Egyptologists are not so convinced.The arm was bent at the elbow in Pharaonic style with its fingers still clutching a long-vanished royal sceptre.

Nefertiti - The beautiful queen of Egypt

Although Nefertiti was the great wife of Akhenaton her origin has been the subject of much speculation and some historians claim that she was married or intended for Amenhotep III.Most historians today believe Nefertiti was the daughter of Aye the trusted adviser of Akhenaton.Some historians believe that Nefertiti changed her name to Smenkhkare, adopted the guise of a man and ruled as co-regent with her husband.Aye was the brother of queen Tye the great wife of Amenhotep III.

Akhenaton decided to go against tradition and convert Egypt to monotheism to worship the one God Aton (or Aten) the Sun Disc .The name Nefertiti means "The beautiful one has come" in the Egyptian language reveals the extraordinary beauty of an Egyptian queen whose bust was discovered in Amarna in Upper Egypt.Smenkhkare appears to have been co-regent for three years and to have died either just before or just after Akhenaton.They had closed the other Gods' temples and moved the capital city to a remote part of the land Amarna.Workers were sent to erase the name of Amun wherever it appeared.Nefertiti was a great supporter of Akhenaten to spread the new religion.

Each city had its own deity and an individual might feel attached to a certain God but no one questioned the existence of other Gods.Nefertiti played an important role in assisting her husband in his efforts to convert Egypt to monotheism which was a religious revolution at the time.Nefertiti and Akhenaton had six daughters.

NEFERTITI---PARTNER IN AKHENATEN'S RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION

Sun queen The bust is said to portray the wife of the Sun King Akhenaten, with whom she is believed to have ruled Egypt between 1353 and 1336BC.Henri Stierlin has said the stunning work that will later this year be the showpiece of the city's reborn Neues Museum was created by an artist commissioned by Ludwig Borchardt, the German archaeologist credited with digging Nefertiti out of the sands of the ancient settlement of Amarna, 90 miles south of Cairo, in 19 In his book, Le Buste de Nefertiti – une Imposture de l'Egyptologie?But Stierlin has argued that while it is possible to carbon date the pigments, 

which appear to be ancient Egyptian, it is impossible to accurately date the bust because it is made of stone covered in plaster.A beautiful woman and a putative scandal," he said.She is to hold court over a long gallery in the north cupola, where she will be set on a specially constructed pedestal.He kept it in his living room for the next 11 years before handing it over to a Berlin museum, since when it has been one of the city's main tourist attractions.You cannot describe it with words.It is thought to have been uncovered in the desert by the archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt in 19 During the years, Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering planned to give it back to Egypt, but Adolf said the bust would have pride of place in a museum for Germania,

the expanded Berlin that was due to be the capital of his Thousand Year Reich.The statue was famously admired by Adolf , who referred to it as "a unique masterpiece, an ornament, a true treasure".A visitor photographs the Nefertiti bust on display at Berlin’s Kulturforum in 20 Photograph: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty Images Her elegant and chiselled features held proud and high on a swanlike neck, she has been smiling serenely for 3,400 years.Public and political enthusiasm about the find at the time gave the artefact its "own dynamic" and led to Borchardt ensuring it was kept out of the public gaze until 1924, the authors have argued.

Berlin author and historian Edrogan Ercivan has added his weight to the row with his book Missing Link in Archaeology, published last week, in which he has also called Nefertiti a fake, modelled by an artist on Borchardt's statuesque wife.The Bust of Nefertiti – an Egyptology Fraud?In October, the bust is due to be moved back into the Neues Museum, which has been reconstructed from its war-torn remains by British architect David Chipperfield, and where Nefertiti was last on display 70 years ago.You must see it.At least that has long been the popular and scientific belief that draws half a million tourists to see her in Berlin every year.

Other aspects of the find, which he has claimed support his theory, are the facts that the bust has no left eye, which the ancient Egyptians would have considered a sign of disrespect towards their much-loved queen, and that the first scientific reports on the discovery were not written up for 11 years.The tests uncovered a hidden face carved into the statue's limestone core.That always sells.He wrote: "Suddenly we had in our hands the most alive Egyptian artwork.Nefertiti means "beautiful woman has arrived".



He said the claims could easily be dismissed because of the detailed computer tomography and material analyses that had been carried out on Nefertiti.But Dietrich Wildung, the director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum, where Nefertiti is currently housed, has fiercely dismissed the allegations as an attempt to exploit the bust's popularity.Recent radiological tests carried out on the statue by Berlin's Charite hospital supposedly proved that the bust is indeed more than 3,000 years old.Over the decades Germany has rejected repeated requests from Egypt for her return.According to a Swiss art historian,

the bust is less than 100 years old.But now doubt has been thrown on the authenticity of the painted limestone and plaster bust of the 18th dynasty Egyptian queen Nefertiti by two authors who claim she is a fake.Stierlin has claimed that the bust was created to test ancient pigments.Borchardt's diary entries remain the main written account of the find.But after it was admired by a Prussian prince, Johann Georg, who was beguiled by Nefertiti's beauty, Borchardt, said Stierlin, "didn't have the nerve to make his guest look stupid" and pretended it was genuine.

Egiptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Ancient Egypt

1369-1332 BC: Amenhotep IV - Akhenaten

These actions were so contrary to the traditional that opposition arose against him.While Akhenaten leans forward to give Meretaten a kiss, Mekeaten plays on her mother's lap and gazes up lovingly.Flesh tones on the face give the bust life.Although the crystal inlay is missing from her left eye, both eyelids and brows are outlined in black.In some version of the story, it is written that father and son shared the throne briefly.While everything is sculpted to perfection, the one flaw of the piece is a broken left ear.

Now the Pharaoh, not the priesthood, was the sole link between the people and Aten which effectively ended the power of the various temples.Perhaps they didn't know either.There were thousands of priests who served the Gods.Her full lips are enhanced by a bold red.

If Akhnaton had the disease each of his daughters had a 50-50 change of inheriting it.It has been suggested to me that Tiy was also her mother.The largest statue in the Cairo Museum shows Amenhotep III and his family.This shrine stela also from the early part of the Amarna period depicts Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Princesses Meretaten, Mekeaten, and Ankhesenpaaten worshiping the Aten as a family.Egyptologists are still tying to figure out what actually happened during his lifetime as much of the truth was buried, for all time, after he died.Many scholars maintain that Akhenaten was responsible for this decline, but evidence suggests that it had already started.

The Berlin bust, seen from two different angles, is indeed, the most famous depiction of Queen Nefertiti.That is why his daughters are shown with similar symptoms.At the top of the composition, the sun-god, Aten, represented by a raised circle, extends his life-giving rays to the Royal Family.Akhenaten was just a teenager at the time, but it was the desire of Queen Tiy that he rule.Akhenaten ascended the throne, succeeding his father Amenhotep III who had died.The figures are framed by a fictive structure which suggests the form of a square window.

The estates of the great temples of Thebes, Memphis and Heliopolis reverted to the throne.Queen Nefertiti is often referred to in history as "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World.He therefore proscribed the cult of Amun, closed the god's temples, took over the revenues.It was as if the God Amun had excluded him.They believed that if the Gods were pleased, Egypt would prosper.Those who inherit it are often unusually tall and are likely to have weakened aortas that can rupture.This was possibly a move to lessen the political power of the Priests.He and Queen Tiy (pronounced 'Tee') had four daughters and two sons.Found in the workshop of the famed sculptor Thutmose, the bust is believed to be a sculptor's model.



Akhenaten built a temple to his god Aten immediately outside the east gate of the temple of Amun at Karnak, but clearly the coexistence of the two cults could not last.The vibrant colors of the her necklace and crown contrast the yellow-brown of her smooth skin.However Ay never specifically refers to himself as the father of Nefertiti, although there are references that Nefertiti's sister, Mutnojme, is featured prominently in the decorations of the tomb of Ay.He was rejected by the world for some unknown reason.In 1352 BC.At the same time Ankhesenpaaten, the smallest, sits on Nefertiti's shoulder and fiddles with her earring.He never appeared in any portraits and was never taken to public events.Akhenaten is principally famous for his religious reforms, where the polytheism of Egypt was to be supplanted by monotheism centered around Aten, the god of the solar disc.

The technique which begins with a carved piece of limestone, requires the stone core to be first plastered and then richly painted.Dorothea Arnold in her article "Aspects of the Royal Female Image during the Amarna Period" discusses the plethora of reliefs depicting intimate family moments.All indications are that as a child Akhenaten was a family outcast.Up and down the Nile, workers built hundreds of temples to pay homage to the Gods.And so it did.He received no honors.

Her graceful elongated neck balances the tall, flat-top crown which adorns her sleek head.Nefertiti's origins are confusing.Ay sometimes called himself "the God's father," suggesting that he might have been Akhenaten's father-in-law.Another suggestion is that Nefertiti was Akhenaten's cousin.The Pharaoh Akhenaten was known as the Heretic King.Akhenaten lived at the peak of Egypt's imperial glory.Yet his mother favored him.He was the tenth King of the 18th Dynasty.He then sent his officials around to destroy Amun's statues and to desecrate the worship sites.

They can die at an early age.Arnold claims that the shrine stela "relates to the Aten religion's concept of creation" in which the King and Queen are viewed as "a primeval 'first pair.Corruption grew out of the mismanagement of such large levies.Symptoms include, short torso, long head, neck, arms, hand and feet, pronounced collarbones, pot belly, heavy thighs, and poor muscle tone.

The other son, Amenhotep IV (Later to take the name Akhenaten) seemed to be ignored by the rest of the family.Egypt had never been richer, more powerful, or more secure.He was never shown with his family nor mentioned on monuments.This was a difficult time in Egyptian history.

We will never know the truth of this line.Akhenaten was the son of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiy, a descendent of a Hebrew tribe.Scientists are studying the fact that Akhenaten suffered from a disease called Marfan Syndrome, a genetic defect that damages the body's connective tissue.Akhenaten and his family lived in the great religious center of Thebes, city of the God Amun.Her wet nurse was the wife of the vizier Ay, who could have been Tiy's brother.Akhenaten's reign lasted 16 years.Akhenaten's brother, Tutmoses was later named high priest of Memphis.

THE FAMILY Akhenaten's Great Royal Wife was Queen Nefertiti.The relief uses the concept of the "window of appearances" or a snapshot of life.Religion was the 'business' of the time, many earning their living connected to the worship of the gods.Because this remarkable sculpture is still in existence, it is no wonder why Nefertiti remains "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World.

Who Was Nefertiti? By Maryalice Yakutchik

How does one of the most powerful, stunningly beautiful and controversial queens of ancient Egypt virtually vanish from history?

With the help of her enemies, apparently. And if there's one thing Egyptologists agree on when it comes to Nefertiti, it's that she had plenty of enemies.

The wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten and perhaps a ruler in her own right after his , Nefertiti was little more than a historical whisper when, in 1912, an exquisite limestone sculpture of her now famous face was unearthed at the royal retreat of Amarna. It was more than 3,200 years old, dating from 1345 B.C.

But from the moment it went on display at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin in 1924, the enigmatic bust with the swan like neck assumed a place as one of the world's most famous icons.

The Nefertiti Hotel and Aladin Tours

As an Egyptian citizen I'm so happy that i have the chance to visit  Luxor and enjoy its places and of course i must enjoy one of its marbles hotels  .

one of this hotels named by Nefertiti Hotel and i advice any one coming to luxor to enjoy this hotel and here some words about nefertiti hotel ..

This is the first review we have ever written about a one star hotel, and for good reason. Its not that we have not tried, but usually the one star hotels we have visited were ill equipped to  deal with tourists. In many instances, the management and employees at the front desk could not speak a word other than Arabic. Often, the hotels were very deserving of their one star status as well.

Nefertiti: Royal Queen of Egypt

4 Queen Makeda also accompanied Solomon throughout his kingdom.Not long after the encounter, the Queen, dying of thirst, searched the palace for water.At this time, Ethiopia was second only to Egypt in power and fame.CLEOPATRA VII QUEEN OF KEMET (Ancient Egypt the land of the blacks) (69-30 B.In ancient times, royal visits were very significant ceremonial affairs.Song of Solomon) Although most of Black history is suppressed, distorted or ignored by an ungrateful modern world,

some African traditions are so persistent that all of the power and deception of the Western academic establishment have failed to stamp them out.And his famous line has continued down to the 20th century when, even now, the ruler of Ethiopia is the "conquering lion of Judah" descended directly from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.She is credited with popularizing the earthen city wall fortifications, which became characteristic of Hausa city-states since then.Would that I could remain here always, if but as the humblest of your workers, so that I could always hear your words and obey you.

Nefertiti's Eye by Jagdish S. Mann

PROLOGUE

Of the three parts of this story, THE PRESENT is all true. THE FUTURE is all imaginary. THE PAST is for the reader to decide, for all who witnessed it have been for thirty three centuries. 

THE PRESENT

 

For more than thirty centuries, Akhenaten and Nefertiti remained unrecorded in history, forgotten even in legend. Their names were chiseled off the monuments; their faces were defaced from the statues; their city was razed to the ground, its very bricks stolen and carried off. Then, slowly, with the increasing successes in deciphering of heiroglyphic and cuneiform writing, a faint whispers of a king (either a gentle prophet or a cruel criminal) and a queen (too beautiful to describe) began to appear. 

Defacers' chisels were not able to disfigure everything. The border stele in the remote areas had survived the destructive fury, and the clay-tablet letters written to foreign capitals had also escaped the censor's attention. Archaeologists began to read these dispersed messages and fill in the empty spaces on the monuments in Thebes and Karnak.

By 1900, a picture had emerged of a pharaoh who was courageous or crazy enough to buck one of the most enduring and entrenched of the establishments. He defied the priests of Amun. He started a new ethic-based monotheistic religion, and erected a beautiful city 300 miles north of Thebes. 

The reaction to this rebellion was swift and complete. Within a few years of his , nothing remained of his religion or of his city. Even his name and that of his queen were obliterated from the memory of men.

But only for a time. Today, Akhenaten is considered to be one of the most remarkable personalities, a man ahead of his time. All major modern religions are essentially ethic-based and monotheistic. But what about his queen? Was she as beautiful as the epithets proclaimed? 

Did she share his vision?

The answer to the first part came with the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti, unearthed near the modern city of Tell el-Amarna, by a team of archaeologists working for the German Orient Society under Professor Ludwig Borchardt of Berlin. They were allowed by the Egyptian Government to excavate the site of Akhenaten's short lived capital,

Akhetaten.

The first person to lay eyes on Nefertiti's face in 3300 years was Mohammed Ahmes Es-Senussi. On December 6, 1912, he was digging in room 19 grid P_47 (the area was divided in grids measuring 600 square feet) when the rays of the sun lit up the gold and blue colors of the queen's necklace. 

A shout from Mohammed brought all picks and shovels in the area to a stand-still. Professor Borchardt was sent for from his make-shift hut where he slumbered, on a canvas cot, after his mid-day meal. The statuette lay buried, head down, in the debris. Once uncovered,

the sand-stone figurine stood twenty inches tall, and was in near perfect condition. The only visible damage was the chipped ear-lobes, and the in-lay of the retina of the left eye was missing.

As to the beauty of Nefertiti: it is timeless. Her face has become the best known in history, and her bust, which the German team smuggled out of Egypt to Berlin disguised as broken pieces of pottery, is the most copied and admired in the world. 

The sand and dirt of room 19 (more than 30 cubic feet) was sifted again and again through a finer and finer mesh. All the ear pieces were found but the eye in-lay was never recovered. Only later, a closer examination revealed that it was never inserted. 

Many theories, some likely and others far-fetched, have been advanced to explain this deliberate flaw in the masterpiece. It was suggested, for example, that the artist was interrupted at his work and left the work-shop with the in-lay in his possession, never to return. Or that the artist had fallen in love with the queen as she posed for him, was jilted by her, and in impotent revenge, refused to complete his masterwork. This is not as far-fetched as it first seems. The queen was known to be flirtatious. Another theory was that Nefertiti had gone blind in one eye. The artist had simply opted for realism over pharoanic dignity. 

Prevalence of eye disease in ancient Egypt was pointed to as well as the uniquely independent style of the artist. The graceful curve of the long neck, the arched eye-brow, and the hint of a smile on the queen's sensual full lips is a far cry from the symmetrical frozen immobility of the traditional Egyptian statuary. 

This view too had to be abandoned, however, when new wall reliefs and other three dimensional figures were found. Some of these were clearly by the same hand that had carved the famous bust, and show the queen, some at an older age, with both perfectly good eyes. No satisfactory consensus has been reached to explain this archaeological mystery.

THE FUTURE

"I didn't know there was this much interest in Nefertiti."

Tomas Sefari pointed to the crowded auditorium. Even the dinosaur dons seemed to have come down from their ivory towers. So many reporters with Holocams moved about everywhere.

"They don't care about Nefertiti. They have come to see a man jump off the world," said Javed Chaudhari.

"I am not jumping off the world. It is a field-trip. A quest for knowledge." Tomas smiled. They had this conversation before. 

"Most people don't understand that kind of motive. The opinion is that you have to be crazy to go on a trip like this, and Cosmic Coincidence Control is not supposed to let loonies run loose in our precious past. It surprised everyone when you got the green light."

Tomas was surprised too. No one has been allowed for nearly nine hundred years. "What about you Javed, do you think I am crazy?"

"I understand your passion, Tomas. It is your obsession that is beyond me. It is like Mummy Moorhead's." 

Professor Archibald Moorhead, although no one questioned his scholarship, was considered a nut-case. He had devoted his life to the study of Rameses II, and was said to know more about Rameses II than even Rameses II. 

"Thanks for the endorsement of my sanity," said Tomas.

"I can not understand that you would let them erase your memory," Javed went on.

"You won't even remember your name. How are you going to remember your mission?"

"Not erase, Javed, modify." said Tomas. "In any case, I had no choice. It was either that or no go." 

About his mission, Tomas had no fears. No matter where, when, or who he was, he will always remember Nefertiti. But would he see her? Would he be able to talk to her? Touch her? In the rigidly stratified Egyptian society, he couldn't simply walk up to the palace. The pharaoh and his queen were considered gods, and were. 

The lights in the auditorium dimmed. He saw Chancellor Thoorston walking to the stage, and was relieved to see that the proceedings would be informal. Too many people around him had been acting as if it were a funeral.

The podium, an ancient 23rd century job (the Academy prided itself on its old-world ambience), lit-up as the Chancellor approached it. 

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Global Academy of Antiquities. I am happy to see so many of you here. Obviously, I need not belabor the importance of this event. Your presence here confirms it. After a hiatus of nine hundred years, a member of this Academy will travel back to the time of the 18th dynasty of the pharoanic age, and due to his courage and sacrifice, our own age will be richer. As tradition dictates, professor Sefari will entertain a few questions from the press although all pertinent information is on the Info-tab. So without further ado , I give you Dr. Tomas Sefari." 

The hall broke into applause and pandemonium as hands went up for attention.

"Professor Sefari," called out Chitra McLintock of the World Fashion Net, "Those clothes you are wearing, is that how the men dressed during that time?" 

"Yes, That is correct," said Tomas. "Dr. Chaudhary, our foremost expert on the period's fashion, assures me that even the spinning of the yarn as well as weaving of the cloth was done according to the techniques of the time. It is also true of the few carving tool I carry."

"What is the mechanism of sending information back to our time, since you will not be returning?" asked Timbo Gore of the New Gotham News. 

"This seeming pebble," said Tomas fingering the pebble hanging around his neck with a leather thong, "is actually a nanotech recording device which is activated when pressed between my palms. I have been told that it is capable of surviving the vicissitudes of time. It is a time-capsule, if you will, to be dug up by my colleagues." 

"But professor, since you won't remember anything, what reason will you have to be talking into the pebble," insisted the reporter.

"A post-hypnotic suggestion will compel me to say my prayers with my hand pressing around this pebble," Tomas said.

"Dr. Sefari, why is it so important to know what happened to Nefertiti's eye? Why are you willing to throw away your life for this trivial piece of data?" asked the young reporter from The Star Rumors. 

"The questions of motivation are always personal. As to the worth of the information, I believe that all knowledge is intrinsically important, no matter how minuscule."

Many more hands went up, but Chancellor Thoorston brought the proceeding to an end.

THE PAST

 

Tomas Sefari hovered over a bluff. Below him, the Nile was a wide ribbon of shimmering water speeding to meet the Mediterranean. Around him, a sea of wheat fields: some harvested, tied in neat bundles, and arranged in straight rows; others ripe and ready, yellow as the sand he could see far to the East. The sky was turning purple pink. The sun will soon rise. His feet felt the ground. 

Time tunnels, those alley-ways that criss-cross "The Garden of The Forking Paths," had brought him here, to the time of his dreams, the time of his muse, Nefertiti. Soon his memory would fade, transmute, and adjust. He will cease to be Tomas Sefari and become Thotmas the Artisan. Thotmas! his name, a name he has always had. 

A boulder, polished by the ages, protruded from the flat field. Here the ploughman had connived with necessity and bent the furrows around the unyielding rock, making it a thing of beauty, a place of power, a place to welcome the morning sun. He walked to the boulder, pulled by it.

The boy bolted from under the rock, sleep still in his eyes, and fear.

Thotmas grabbed him, smiled at him, and offered him a piece of flat-bread--bread baked in the far future and put in his bag, along with his tools, by the always thoughtful, but no longer remembered, Javed Chaudhari.

Fate rules the world. Never were two people better met than Thotmas and Jabedi, a time traveler and a run away slave boy. Jabedi taught Thotmas the Theban language, guffawing at his mispronunciations. Thotmas taught Jabedi to carve soap-stone into figures and to whittle faces from the driftwood. They wandered along the Nile, going North. Thotmas, restless, prompted by some subliminal longing; and Jabedi, merely to get far from Thebes and his sadistic owner. 

One hot afternoon, thirsty and tired, they came upon the Inn. The walled court-yard, with its gate wide open, was big and inviting. Men snoozed in the shade on thick papyrus mats, some sat talking and drinking. Donkeys dozed, tethered to the palm trees, resting as only the beast of burden can. In the shade of the old fig-tree, a woman cooked in the out-door kitchen.

Emboldened by his hunger and taunted by the aroma wafting from the flaming brazier, Jabedi walked up to her. 

"Mistress, for the price of a meal, my master will draw the likeness of thy face which is more beautiful than the full moon in the harvest season," said Jabedi, his voice dry, a mere croak.

"Drink!" she said, pointing to the water pitcher. "Drink some water before you sell your master. And give him some too." 

Thotmas did not draw the likeness of Dulea, the cook and the proprietress of the Inn. He painted it, in bright colors, on the huge adobe wall overlooking the Nile. 

In the mural, Dulea stands in her out-door kitchen. A brazier flames next to her. Lush green leaves of the fig-tree fill and form the back-ground. Bundles of garlic and onions hang from the wall. Foods of all sorts: a roasted duck, fish on the , tack of bread, a basket if fruit sit on the counter. Surrounded by this cornucopia, her arms full of green vegetables, she looks like an earth-mother. Thotmas was happy with the results. Business at the Inn boomed soon after the mural was finished. Dulea found many, some quite odd, reasons to be on the river.

"The eyes seem to follow you," she said.

"She is happier than a pharaoh’s daughter," said her taciturn husband. 

And then the pharaoh's soldiers came. Thotmas was finishing his second mural: a bird's eye-view of the Nile, painted on the front wall of the Inn, near the kitchen. It shows Juma standing next to the water-wheel that hauls the river water for the use of the Inn's gardens and guests. Below him, filling the horizon, is the Nile. On its broad back float sluggish barges, swift sail-boats, and far in the distance, a royal galleon, colorful as a fire-cracker. 

With the clatter of hooves, dust, and barking of orders, the soldiers rode into the court-yard. Fear hung sweat thick in the Inn. People herded themselves near the kitchen, seeking security in the company of others just as helpless as themselves. They brought nothing but and slavery to the fellahin. 

"Where is the one who painted that?" demanded the officer of the horsemen, his spear pointed to the wall. Not an eye raised or a muscle moved. Thotmas put his reed-brush down and looked up at the horsemen. 

"Keep thy eyes cast down, O artisan. Provoke them not," whispered Dulea to him.

"It is I who did it," said Thotmas walking towards the officer. Jabedi followed close, keeping his eyes prudently glued to the ground. 

"Are you also the one who painted the picture that can be seen from the river?" inquired the officer. Already his voice had lost its harshness.

"That is so,." replied Thotmas. To everyone's amazement, the officer climbed down from his horse. 

"Sir!" he said, "You are asked to present your self for an interview with a person of importance. A boat will collect you tomorrow morning at the Inn's docking. This tunic has been sent to you for your use." He gave Thotmas a bundle.

Hardly any one slept that night. The Inn hummed with gossip. Who was this person of importance? Speculation abounded. 

"He is a banished prince of India. Now that the cruel regent is , he is to go back and rule his native land and free his sister and mother from the dungeon where they have languished for many years," said the story-teller with entirely unjustified confidence. But the less fanciful explanation offered by the donkey driver, presented with visual aids, held more sway.

"Look at my donkey over there, just look at her." He pointed to the donkey. "Now look at this." He passed around a papyrus sheet. Thomas had done the handsome animal justice.

"As anyone with eyes can see, this man Thotmas is a damn good painter of pictures. 

The tax-collector has heard of his talent. He is going to decorate his tomb. Even now, if you take the trouble to look, there is a galleon anchored on the Nile to take him to the City of the ."

The donkey-driver did not know how uncannily close to the truth he had come. It was not the tax-collector, but Nefertiti, the queen of Upper and Lower Egypt, who had seen the Mural on the wall. The sun was shining on the mural as the queen's galleon passed by. The colors of the mural were radiant in the afternoon light. The peasant woman looked alive, her eyes following the royal barge; and it seemed to the queen that the leaves of the painted fig tree moved in the breeze.

"The man that painted that mural, bring him to me," she ordered her chamberlain. "And Hetusha," she added. "No harm must come to him. He is special. We need men like him to build Akhetaten." 

Akhetaten, the capitol of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, was the first planned city in history. In 1359 BC, one hundred thousand workmen and artisans arrived at the virgin site, (a barren desert on the western bank of the Nile mid-way between Thebes and Memphis), and in less than four years, a city with its broad avenues, lush gardens, great temples, and elegant homes and palaces, was complete. 

Thotmas was the master sculptor of the "city of dreams," and the most favored of its queen. He too loved her with all his heart. No woman was ever painted or sculpted with more passion for perfection than Nefertiti by Thotmas. He sketched her as she posed for him in the nude, he chiseled her likeness in alabaster, granite and sand-stone. As he knew her more, his art transcended tradition and touched the face of beauty. 

On the thirteenth day of Peret, in the year 1355 BC, Jabedi brought a load of sand-stone blocks to the work-shop. One small block (2'x2') took Thotmas's fancy. He carried it to his private work-place. His body shivered with the cool touch of the stone; his mind filled with strange premonitions. He closed his eyes and saw the face of his beloved embedded in the stone.

For the next two months, in secret, Thotmas coaxed the stone, chisel stroke by gentle chisel stroke, to release the face hidden within. Slowly, the graceful neck, the high cheek-bones, the curved brow, emerged, and the sensual lips of the queen smiled at the artist. Still in secret, he painted the bust with loving care. But the statuette stayed sightless. Thotmas could not bring himself to insert the eye in-lays. 

Finally, when he could find no more excuses, he forced himself. His hands s he put in the right eye retina, and as he picked up the paste for the left eye, his mind whirled, his head spun, and the memories came flooding in: memories of another time, memories of who he was and why he was here. Thotmas/Tomas Sefari realized that he will not complete his masterpiece. He must not, if he wished to be with his beloved. He walked to the river. The Nile was in flood and the little paste for Nefertiti's left eye will never be found.

EPILOGUE 

 

Nefertiti was said to have died five days before her 40th birthday. But her sarcophagus was never found, and the rumors persist in the time tunnels that she was seen traveling to the future in the company of Thotmas/Tomas Sefari. 

the source http://www.sherryart.com/newstory/nefertiti.html 

queen Nefertiti

It has escaped the excesses of the Amarna artistic style, and survived the wholesale destruction of Akhenaten's monuments after his .From surviving record it seems she either fell from favor or died at around year 12 of Akhenaten's reign.It is interesting to consider that the busts on this page were found in a sculptors workshop at Akhetaten.

It seems that when the city was abandoned they were left behind because such was the anti Atenist feelings that no one wanted them.It is possible that Akhenaten's successors Smenkhkare and Tutankhaten were his children by another royal wife called Kiya who became his principle queen for a short while after year 12 of his reign.The famous statue of Nefertiti, found in a sculptors workshop in Akhetaten, is one of the most immediately recognisable icons from this period of history.

Nefertiti again and again..

Nefertiti, which means "the beautiful woman has come", is one of the most famous and beloved of all ancient Egyptian queens.Nefertiti was the wife of Akhenaten.It was around the 15th regnal year of Akhenaten that Nefertiti mysteriously disappeared from the scene.Whatever the case, she is replaced by her eldest daughter, Meritaten.

The second opinion is that perhaps she believed that Akhenaten was losing touch with his people and angering them by destroying all other gods besides his own, thus she could have been banished by Akhenaten for going against his religion.Two reasons could be used for explaining Nefertiti's banishment.

queen nefertiti ..The Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV - Akhenaten

In actuality, the royal palace at Akhetaten had a window from which the royal couple could observe the city and address their subjects.As with Akhenaten there is no trace of Nefertiti's mummy.

During the early years of her royal reign, Nefertiti as part of her religious conversion changed her name.This shrine stela also from the early part of the Amarna period depicts Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Princesses Meretaten, Mekeaten, and Ankhesenpaaten worshiping the Aten as a family.

The relief uses the concept of the "window of appearances" or a snapshot of life.Ay sometimes called himself "the God's father," suggesting that he might have been Akhenaten's father-in-law.Aldred in his book Egyptian Art calls this "a brief moment in the lives of five beings as they are caught in an act of mutual affection".The compostion mirrors early artistic representations of the royal couple.

Akhenaten - The Heretic Pharaoh

For these reasons, Akhenaten is sometimes referred to as The "Heretic Pharoah.In addition, the bust of Akhenaten's wife Nefertiti is one of the most famous and exquisite pieces of art surviving from this time period.And may the discernment of spirits, that by God's grace I was privileged to know as one of the gifts of that Holy Spirit, be yours each and every one,

if you would have it.Akhenaten was Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt from approximately 1353 to 1136 BC.Akhenaten Continues His Religious Revolution Akhenaten is an earlier incarnation of the ascended master known today as Lanello, the ascended master name of Mark Prophet,

original founder of The Summit Lighthouse.Akhenaten's reign began sometime shortly after the of his father.After his , Akhenaten was discredited and the previous religious practices were restored.Religion had even become the business of the day.He was also not in line for the family throne until the untimely of his older brother.

Where's Nefertiti?

In short order, Susan E.And by putting out in the popular media what is considered by most scholars to be an unsound theory, Dr.Fletcher broke the bond made by York University with the Egyptian authorities.We grant concessions to any scholar affiliate to a scientific or educational institution, 

and it has long been accepted code of ethics that any discovery made during excavations should first be reported to the SCA.James--who had earlier proposed another mummy might be Nefertiti--picked apart Fletcher's evidence in the pages of the journal KMT (fall 2003 issue).By going first to the press with what might be considered a great discovery, Dr.

According to a Washington Post article, 5 million viewers tuned in to the documentary when it aired August 17, 2003, putting it in the top ten programs ever for the cable channel.It surely reached new heights--or depths--of misinformation, 

sensationalism and really tacky costuming.Worse was to come.95) is the American edition of a companion book to the documentary.Due out in October, The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery (William Morrow & Co.And there are other gaps, of which the most important are 1) little is said of results from her team's studies, and 2) the lack of acknowledgment of earlier work by other scholars.While studying Egyptian royal wigs, she read a brief mention of an unidentified and mummified body, discovered long ago and believed to belong to an Egyptian of little importance.Zahi Hawass, 

Queen Ankhesenamun

Her had has tragically now vanished.Ankhesenamun was the third of Nefertiti's daughters but she is best known as the wife of the famous pharaoh King Tutankhamun who was the king of Egypt 3,500 years ago.Nowadays, it is not thought that Tutankhamun was ed, although a letter from a Queen of the time to the King of the Hittites says quite plainly that her husband was ed and that they were trying to force her to marry her husband's ed.He was a very old man - old enough to have been her grandfather.Maybe her final misfortune was her fourth husband, the Pharaoh Ay.

Her misfortune has continued in .Although Queen Ankhesenamun obviously loved Tutankhamun, he was actually not her first husband: he may have been her third.Ankhesenamun does fit the profile.When the KV21A mummy was found it had a head with long, lustrous black hair.The mummy, known as KV21A, was found without inscriptions or grave goods and has been identified as the probably mother of two of Tutankhamun's children which, by deduction, suggests it is Ankhesenamun.Ankhesenamun was probably quite an attractive woman.