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. 

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Nefertiti again and again..

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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.

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Death of queen nefertiti

after short live as aroyal wife queen nefertiti death , just 40 years ago nefertiti start its live exact at 1370 BC and she was the royal wife of of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten ..

i repeat this information again and again for many posts and i will resume , to giving you all informations about queen nefertiti and here the story of death...

About Year 14 of Akhenaten's reign (1336 BC), Nefertiti vanishes from the historical record. There is no word of her after that date. Theories include sudden death by a plague that was sweeping through the city or another natural death. A previous theory that she fell into disgrace is now discredited, since the deliberate erasures of monuments belonging to a queen of Akhenaten have been shown to refer to Kiya instead.^[4] Conclusions about the disappearance of Nefertiti seem likely to be lost to history.

The Coregency Stela may show her as a co-regent with her husband, who possibly ruled after his death. Some scholars think that Nefertiti changed her name, first to Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten and later to Ankhkheperure Smenkhkare, and that she enjoyed a brief sole rule under the latter name. They also believe that, as her husband's co-regent and successor, she may have attempted to reconcile the Atenist and Traditional religions^[5] Nefertiti would have prepared for her death and for the succession of her daughter, now named Ankhsenamun, and her stepson, Tutankhamun. They would have been educated in the traditional way, worshiping the old gods. This theory has Neferneferuaten's dying after two years of kingship, to be succeeded by Tutankhamun. (In February 2010, results of DNA tests were published which confirmed his being a son of Akhenaten.)

He married Nefertiti's daughter Ankhesenpaaten. The royal couple were young and inexperienced, by any estimation of their age. Ankhesenpaaten bore two premature, stillborn daughters whose mummies were found by Howard Carter in Tutankhamen's tomb. Some theories believe that Nefertiti was still alive and held influence on the younger royals. If this is the case, that influence and presumably Nefertiti's own life would have ended by year 3 of Tutankhaten's reign (1331 BC). In that year, Tutankhaten changed his name to Tutankhamun. This was evidence of his return to the official worship of Amun, and his abandonment of Amarna to return the capital to Thebes.

As can be seen by the suggested identifications between Tadukhipa, Nefertiti, Smenkhkare and Kiya, the records of their time and their lives are largely incomplete. The findings of archaeologists and historians may develop new theories vis-à-vis Nefertiti and her precipitous exit from the public stage.

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if you search over the internet about the story of queen nefertiti or nefertiti bust you will find thousand of results talk in detail about the queen story but in this post you will find the story also but in brief .

The beautiful Queen Nefertiti, wife of King Akhenaten. Did not take place in the veins of her blood, property, but it was linked to minors, in some way.

The Nefertiti supported her husband during religious and social reforms, and then moved with him to Okhittatun or Tel el-Amarna. And appeared with him during the ceremonies and rituals, and family scenes, even in the traditional landscape of military campaigns, which depicted, which include the elimination of enemies.

Then one of the daughters died a Mikit - Aten, was filmed by grief in some graffiti. After the death of their daughter, Nefertiti disappeared from the court and replaced Meritaten replaced by her daughter, and got the title of Great Royal Wife.

Nefertiti died in the fourteenth to the rule of Akhenaten, it is possible to have been buried in the cemetery royal tombs, in the Tel el-Amarna, but not found on her body.

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Myth and Queen Nefertiti

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The beauty of Nefertiti was documented in many of the paintings some of them founded in the Tel el-Amarna, which was once the capital of the throne of Akhenaten.

It is the finest works of art bust statue of Jerry's shows at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin since 1924. This statue was discovered, which is not longer than fifty centimeters (20 inches), which is now the most famous Egyptian artifacts from the era of the Pharaohs, a German archaeologist, Ludwig Borjardt. He has this discovery on the sixth of December 1912 during the researches in the Tel el-Amarna.

Is still the subject of the statue was so far a matter of controversy whether Nefertiti, or it belongs to Ttmosis. However, the bust of Nefertiti by one eye only completed the drawing, and this indicates that the statue was perhaps the only model represents a base for the immortal work of art.

Also found was another bust of Queen Temptress by British researcher John Pendlebury in about 1932 during the excavation took place in Tel el-Amarna. This head, which was going to put him on the example monument, does not exhibit any inscriptions. But like the rest of the artwork Bnfrtii, was accepted as represented. Today, we can take a look at this work of art the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo.

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Must Akhenaten was not all love and respect for his wife and partner on an exceptional basis. She took his city columns of inscriptions and writings reflect his quest to extract love:

"Beautiful-natured, the owner of happiness, you who are endowed with the ability to listen, her voice brings joy, the queen of all the beautiful, from birth all the love, bringing happiness to the king brane."

The appearance of a royal

Nefertiti was the show in the first years of its rule, the traditional gospel of honor upheld by queens. The Painted Tigana wearing a wig and adorned with feathers and cow horns and sun disk, and all attributes related to a range goddess (Hathor). And decorated with the Queen after that in el-Amarna, capital of the new property, the crown of a blue flat-top format that resembles the crown of the war of Akhenaten; a crown that embodied the Berlin Museum and a statue that became widely known throughout the world. In some cases, they appear in fees, wearing a crown like a narrow hood. The Queen wears beautiful clothes at other times in the head like a handkerchief and was known Balkhat.

The Nefertiti look at old drawings of other including hair Array has described as a "candle Nubian wig." It consists of a set of layers of hair and braids, which sits on top of each other, and that wig is not only worn by men belonging to the royal army.

The Queen Hajpa often Izinhma cobra snake from each side, namely, to symbolize its sovereignty over the brane, Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.

Show paintings and engravings found on the property AKHNATON partner wearing a dress collapsed. It was also wears a wig with curly hair shows Iabanan crown above them the sun disk of the arbitrator and frieze Cobra feathers and Taiwiltan.


As is the case for the rest of the members of the aristocracy, were not Nefertiti show jewelry and wigs and clothes and narrow, but also cosmetic powders used to show the natural beauty. Women were in those days paint a broad black line around the eye and eyelid until it reaches the outside of the eye. And this line is linked to the ancient Egyptian ritual purity. Also wore the eyelid paste consisting of copper powder mixed with green fat. The women used the ruddy cheeks and lips, also in accordance with the drawings that attest to this. The two are using the same adhesive bond and then granulated mixed lettuce.



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Not only beauty and myth, but also its extraordinary power. It was Nefertiti and her husband the pharaoh Akhenaten, two of the major religious revolution at dawn. We have been able to replace all the traditional gods in one God only is the sun god Aten.

Great Royal Wife

Seems that Nefertiti was keen to secure the new religion. And perhaps also able to use the new religion to find their own place as soon as possible to divinity. The working Egyptologists at the present time on research in the temples of Karnak and Luxor, a guide which may be able to support that hypothesis.

Akhenaten was established during his rule, which was in the middle of the fourteenth century BC, many of the temples in the suburbs for the worship of the sun god Aten. Since those temples have been considered as the remnants of the defunct, it was to destroy them all after the expiration of the reign of Akhenaten. Has been drawn from the remaining stone slabs to build the memorials of other governors who ruled Egypt after that. Scientists are trying now to reassemble that one side of the other stones so that they can configure the scenes and clear, hoping to reach the social status of Nefertiti.

Has been decrypted part of its name carved on a stone in addition to one of the titles of ownership (the Great Royal Wife). Was found more than one pattern depicting Nefertiti, and leading the chariot carrying scepter, a slogan that the highest authority in the pharaonic state. She also appeared in other pictures, as the queen of her country, equipped with the enemies of Egypt and in her hand a baton or sword, or the Royal Mounted on an expanse, or is blowing gold honor of the god. Did not receive any other female of the royal family such documentation prior to imaging Nefertiti or later.

Wives of the god Amon

Karnak Temple stands witness to the story of the establishment of Egypt, which has engraved on the walls. According to legend, it was not there something in the beginning, then back the God of creation and fertility Amon between the dark and was accompanied by the goddess of Mt. Signed Amon captivated tricks lure. According to ancient sources: "The flames lit, as a result his desire to raise the universe." It was near the god Amun the Pharaohs, who considered his representatives on the ground they govern in his name and on his behalf. The women were also nearby. The Basttaathn also to become his wives after Iqmn the performance of certain rituals. According to the evidence provided by contemporary cartoons, it is believed that women Bainhen visited the holy shrine of Amun at Karnak. There Qmn represent the myth of creation and curved Amon eternal worldliness, to make sure that the universe will fall back to the chaos that was experienced before the shape. Thus, women become "Wives of Amun and his companions." It is the right of any aristocratic Egyptian women to obtain this honorary title and enjoy the social aura associated with it.

The strength of Pharaoh

During the reign of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, was the temple of Karnak pylon on the east side of it. Has been evoked, more than percent of the graphic pattern rituals. Most of those depicting Nefertiti, standing in the center of worship, including the offerings to the god.

In fact, the tradition requires not only Offering from the pharaoh himself or "wife or companion of God." So these paintings show that Nefertiti was in power, have the status equal to that status they enjoyed by the Pharaohs. Although the new religion preached by no longer a place for "wives or companions of God", it was announced that Nefertiti's allegiance to the god Aten, following the same ritual that was practiced by companions of the god Amon. Nefertiti and look as if they were using their religious traditions "for Boyfriends" God in order to elevate themselves to the ranks of gods.

And after all that Nefertiti was able to become the decade of the most powerful women in the ancient world.




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Tafrtete remained for more than ten years of the most powerful women in Egypt. Nefertiti has ruled the country, will continue to venerate the gods that hold sway Spegha by its people, tandem with her husband Omenovs IV, Ruler of the New Kingdom of the family-eighth session, and who changed his name to Akhenaten after he ascended the throne about 1353 BC. However, there is only a little glamorous about the Queen today. Have faded completely from history around the year 1336 BC, when she was about thirty years.

The emergence of a bright and sudden demise

Married Nefertiti from the pharaoh Akhenaten, the son of Omenovs third in the fourth year of his ascendancy to the throne of ancient Egypt, it seems she was five years old then, in a time when Akhenaten in the fourth years of age. As a result of this union, raised the beautiful Queen handed power to become one of the most women who reigned ancient Egypt, the authority and influence. The Nefertiti enjoy and celebrate the love and sanctification, and taken its place beside the king in all important events, and remained its almost equal to that status. But suddenly missed their impact; even today not found any evidence that would shed some light on the fate of the mysterious Nefertiti. So far, her body is still missing.

Where did Nefertiti?

Queen Of The picturesque background suffer from the ambiguity as well. According to one theory, it might have been Princess Mitani (Tadoikhyeea), the bride to marry a candidate Omenovs III but instead she married his son. According to another theory that Nefertiti was born as a result a relationship between the third and one Omenovs Khalilath. This theory makes Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and two brothers, but brothers. But this theory also considered unreasonable because Nefertiti was entitled to receive the title (the daughter of Pharaoh), which never happened. The third theory that Nefertiti was the daughter of Tai Wai. According to this theory, and her father was one of the senior officials in the royal court of the third Omenovs thus making it very close to Akhenaten. Based on that theory, which is widely popular with Egyptologists, the background of Nefertiti was back to the upper class of ancient Egyptian society. But may not be the true mother of Tai Queen charming, but is likely to have been Mrdatha.

In favor of the sun god

Was Akhenaten, Nefertiti and the lead in carrying out reforms, religious and social importance. It was more their many achievements is the rejection of the ancient Egyptians, usually many gods and worship one God instead is the sun god Aten.

In the fifth year of the rule of Akhenaten, the transfer of the headquarters of a couple of good official successors to Tel el-Amarna, which was known as a chosen light Aten.

Even Karnak, which was until then based in the traditional range of Amun, was witnessing the building of new temples was close to the sun god. The temples are decorated with the large numbers of images of Nefertiti, which was carrying the title as Queen of the traditional royal "perfect Kamal Aten."

Nefertiti's perpetuating and received in the temples and monuments more so than any other Egyptian queen before or after. It is likely that the Queen had occupied the post of High Priest is also a position that is usually maintained by the kings, and alone.

But Nefertiti disappeared from the images and inscriptions in the last year of the rule of Akhenaten and images appeared in lieu of two of the six daughters were (Mritatun) and (Onkhsainbatun).


Fate unknown

What could have been caused to the queen? Researchers believe the long period of time that the Queen has lost favor with Akhenaten, was excluded from the royal family. Perhaps it was because of its failure to have a son to him? Another theory says that the couple was overthrown by a popular insurrection by by people who thought that the worship of Aten was heresy. As Tutankhamun had regained the throne in 1333 BC, it is certain that he eliminated all traces of Akhenaten and Nefertiti and all but wiped out what would Ieidahma to mind.


Has not been found in a cemetery in Tell el-Amarna to this day more than some of the items that are believed to belong to Akhenaten, which indicates that Nefertiti was not buried there; as well as that of her death is not documented anywhere else.

Have the Nefertiti Akhenaton on the throne?

Although the son of Akhenaten, his mistress Kia, which is Tutankhamun, but he has appointed (Smonkkr) as his successor. Some Egyptologists Smonkkr that may have been another son of Akhenaton, Kia, as some people think that maybe half brother of Akhenaten, or a member of the royal family.

However, the fact that Nefertiti and used the same surname Smonkkr overtime (perfect Kamal Aten), limited interconnected to the assumption that Nefertiti herself regained the throne after Akhenaten's death in 1336 BC. However, there is also evidence that Nefertiti had died in the fourteenth year of the rule of her husband, Akhenaten, when bubonic plague plagued Egypt at the time.

Is it caused the sudden disappearance of Nefertiti to remain a mystery long age? Perhaps, but the body may be able to found the British exploration team, which is believed to be the mummy of Queen's magic, from disclosing some of the secrets underlying the Queen


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But now we tell you how you were found and the disclosure of her tomb and mummy of the
Detection research team is conducting a survey in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor in Egypt unveiled what could be the mummy of Queen Nefertiti Egyptian myth. The team used the University of York, who led by Dr Joanne Fletcher system of mobile X-ray examination of the mummy in February 2003. This was the first time that the Egyptian authorities allow the use of such devices in archaeological sites.

Blu-ray to make mobile search easier

Were found on the body that had been included under the "mummy 61072" lying next to the bodies of two other Mahnttin a woman and a boy at the corner of a room in the cemetery to 35. The researchers were able to examine the mummy inside the cemetery, and thus avoid any possibility of exposure to damage or distortion during the transfer process. It was not for that process to take place without the use of a "Canon - C-DA X-31", the first rays of a digital mobile system in the world.

To this day, the method used was to get the mummies unearthed from cemeteries and transferred to a hospital for examination by X-rays. Which is considered an expensive and threatens serious risks may fall of the mummy.

In the case of the mummy 61072, has allowed Blu-ray mobile flat-panel of scientists to work within the cemetery itself producing three-dimensional pictures of the body stuffed without even having to move it from its place.

The process called in more than three seconds between scan the image and appear on a computer screen. It also allows the zoom photographing glass jewelry, teeth and bones as well as pictures of the body as a whole. Can also be used new technology to do virtual tours within the structure of the mummy.

Contracts for gold in the chest cavity

X-rays show that he took the Group, Dr. Fletcher body of an adult woman with spinal curvature in the string in the lower back.

The images show also a number of gold contracts within the chest cavity, which was open. These contracts have coined the same design approach of Royal Jewelry and perhaps further evidence that the 61072 is the mummy of the Queen of human remains were once a great good and beauty.

British researchers believe that the site is unusual for gold contracts was probably a result of attempts by thieves to plunder the tomb, causing harm mummy in these processes.


You will puzzle?

Scientists hope to allow them to Blu-ray mobile rebuilding the face of Nefertiti months world-wide. Also expected to provide many images of the mummy of evidence on the health situation has even caused her death.

Has crossed the manufacturer of mobile X-ray also pleased about this discovery, says James Ibenek, President of the inter-relationship and contact the drugs of Europe: "We would not imagine that some of our technology, manufactured in order to meet the medical needs of the twentieth century will be used in day to identify the mummy and shed light on Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. "


Will be transferred with the assistance of the three mummies of the Egyptian government in the cemetery to 35 and stored carefully for further research and scrutiny



D. Joan Fletcher examine the mummy of Queen Nefertiti

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The mummy of Queen Nefertiti

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D. Joan Fletcher used a new technology for mobile beam without moving the mummy

Discovery
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This discovery may prove as the greatest archaeological achievements since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Falmp effects of British

Joan Fletcher sure they had found the mummy of Queen Nefertiti, the myth, which were once ruled Egypt along with her husband Akhenaten. The focus of research, Dr. Fletcher is currently working on the discovery of evidence to support its claims discovery of woman's body, which is next to Cleopatra months among women who reigned ancient Egypt.

* Mummy No. 61072

Allowed to Dr Joan Fletcher lecture at the University of York and her team examined the cemetery known as "the 35-to" Valley of the Kings near Luxor. This is not the first time that you open the cemetery, they have opened before in 1898 but soon closed again in 1907. She drew one of the mummies attention of the research team, has revealed the old photos of the semi-major between them and the famous bust of Nefertiti in the Berlin Museum.

The mummy was given the number 61072, was found with two additional one to two woman and the other boy, and the three mummies occupy one corner of a burial chamber Omenovs II. Credit is due to find the mummies of the three French archaeologist Victor Loret in the late nineteenth century. However, since the mummies were in a deplorable condition they received little attention at that time or later.

But today, after great efforts in the examination and scrutiny, the archaeological team found the British to the conclusion that the mummy 61072 belonging to Queen Nefertiti legend personally.


Q: Do you found the body of Nefertiti?

In the belief the British scientist, the evidence that the mummy back to Nefertiti, including: earlobe holes that have a sign of ownership, and the effects of the gold ring on the head and those are also a sign of other property as the wearing of such bands in this way was exclusive to members the royal family only, and clean-shaven head, Dr. Fletcher, who believes that it could be overwhelming evidence in the case of compatibility with the size of Crown Blue theme on top of bust of Nefertiti in the Berlin Museum.

The initial assessment by a team of British research that the mummy, which was found lying under the rubble of a huge linen, involving at least one of the women of the royal family during the reign of el-Amarna.

Valrqubp long swan-like neck, and cheeks and palate Almertfan slave apply all descriptions Nefertiti slave. According to Dr. Fletcher is another sign of affiliation confirm the mummy of Queen Sast beautiful Kingdom of the Nile is the wig was found in earlier near the embalmed body. The wig head Dresser Nubian-style This was the style preferred by the Women's Royal Family in the late Eighteenth Dynasty.

In addition, the method adopted in the mummification of the three mummies found in the cemetery "for the 35" side by side with the material used and the specific type of embalming Jima refer to it dating back to the mid to end of the eighteenth dynasty, the period for which he where Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti of ancient Egypt. That was the conclusion reached by Dr. Stephen Buckley, an expert on global versed in this area took part in the scrutiny of the consideration of those mummies.

* The effects of violence

With the body believed to be Nefertiti effects of extreme violence, it seems, she was kind of an ax or machete. The mummy lost the right ear and one arm, although the missing hand was found in a second expedition by the British team in February 2003. Since there is abundant evidence, in the opinion of Dr. Joan Fletcher, weighting hypothesis Nefertiti was severely tortured and even killed, those cases might have been an additional piece of cut wood puzzles (puzzle), which would eventually prove crucial to the identity of the body. Perhaps Almsra marked by the violence that has plagued the Queen's revenge for the people, according to Dr. Fletcher, because of the manner in which it is unwilling to Akhenaten from the old religion.

The further tests revealed that the face has been hit hard by a sharp object, probably a dagger. This validates the premise that the Queen of either Almsgut was tortured before her death, or that her body mutilated after her death.

The right arm of the mummy, discovered in the process of exploratory separate later, the Flex, so stop going up. Fingers and still look like a royal scepter arrest, despite the fact that Puck himself has faded over time. According to the ancient Egyptian tradition, only the pharaohs were Muarathm from being in their final resting place in this way. Since some studies is that Nefertiti was Fronp, perhaps this was another Emirate to prove their identity.

* A family tomb

There is another piece of strong evidence provided by one of the other mummies found in the same cemetery next to the mummy 61072. For what appears to be that stuffed mummy belongs to T-Queen. Or at least that was the result based on a set of analysis carried out on hair samples by Egyptian scientists and U.S. during the seventies. The T is a fellow Ominhtob III and mother of Akhenaten, in other words, was a relative of Nefertiti.

* Will not solve the mystery cat?

However, some experts expressed doubts. They believe that the Fletcher and her colleagues have built the hypothesis of insufficient evidence. They say that the mummy was discovered during the search may have been belonging to someone else, such as one of the daughters of Nefertiti, for example. Therefore, in spite of extensive research, the mummy was older than three thousand years and continue bearing the number 61072 in the formation of a conundrum. Perhaps the key to settle it decisively is a comparative examination of nucleic acid. However, since that even today is not found on any of the daughters of Nefertiti, or close to her family, this means that the DNA tests is not feasible at the present time.

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