Dr Joyce Tyldesley, an Egyptologist from The University of Manchester, says Queen Nefertiti was just one of a series of powerful queens who played an influential role in Egyptian history. It was, ...

She has an estimated value of €400 million ($433 million) and is a jewel in the crown of Egyptian antiquities. Yet a 3,370 year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti has been in Berlin since 1913 ...

An Egyptian archaeologist has demanded the repatriation of the iconic bust of Queen Nefertiti that was shipped to Berlin over ...

King Tut’s iconic mask is 21 inches tall, inlaid with precious stones, and features a 5.5-pound golden beard as part of the larger 22.5-pound gold mask. That beard may have been an afterthought when ...

Egyptian officials have not commented ... and music videos showing how Beyoncé and Rihanna had both appeared as Queen Nefertiti; a modern sculpture of Nas based on the famous gold mask of ...

Ever since British archaeologist Howard Carter first peered into the tomb of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, 100 years ...

Nefertiti, with their daughters. But a newly studied relief from a monument at Karnak dating to around 1350 B.C.—just before Akhenaten turned the Egyptian world upside down—provides ...

Queen Tiye of Egypt is regarded as the figure who paved the way for the world's major religions and was venerated as a ...

The bust of Queen Nefertiti is a magnet for every visitor to Berlin. On the Nile, however, the icon of Egyptian culture is sorely missed.

Zahi Hawass, a former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities and renowned archaeological expert, launched a petition on change.org urging Germany to return the colored limestone bust of Queen Nefertiti ...

Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has renewed his campaign to repatriate the famous bust of Queen Nefertiti from Berlin’s Neues Museum, with the artifact having ...

Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor.