Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Bust of Queen Nefertiti

            Nefertiti is Egypt's 18th dynasty pharaoh amon HuoTaiPu IV's wife, she had a short life which only for 30 years. She was not only the normal ancient Egyptian beautiful queen, but also had an equal power as her husband for her lifetime. She was a great ancient Egyptian politician who had big influence on economy, military, culture and religion. For researchers in the ancient Egyptian civilization, the name of Nefertiti is more outstanding than her husband's meng HuoTaiPu iv, she was as famous as Cleopatra VII, queen of Ptolemaic Egyp as well as the first woman Pharaoh of Egypt----Hatshepsut, and called the greatest three women of ancient Egypt.
            Nefertiti means beautiful, she was in about 1352 BC to 1352 BC, and helped her husband Meng HuoTaiPu IV ruled Egypt. There is enough evidence to show that, after her husband's death, she went on ruled Egypt for three more years, at the time when Nefertiti ruled Egypt, she ordered to build lots of trade routes and transport precious treasure from overseas to Egypt. At the time of her reign, the women and men enjoy equal rights, buy and sell items in bazaar, take part in the war as well as do the same work.

            Nefertiti is always has been the most Precious in Berlin museum. On December 6, 1912, Berlin archaeologist Ludwig Bogarde found this Nefertiti statue. The head of Nefertiti is over 3300 years and in 1913 it was shipped to Germany but the body parts were still in Egypt. Berlin museum did an exhibition on it in 1923, the beauty of head shocked the world but during the Second World War, the head is mysteriously disappeared in April 1945. Later, the American army found it in north of Frankfurt, Germany, in a 640 m deep salt mine. It was in a pocket and hidden by the Nazis. Over years, Egypt has been negotiating with German Berlin museum and striving for asking Nefertiti head back to Egypt.

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