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Old news Narmer. There is a therad on this already but. . .
""The pigments, which can be dated, are really ancient," he added."
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"The historian said the archaeologist had hoped to produce a new portrait of the queen wearing a necklace he knew she had owned and also carry out a colour test with ancient pigments found at the digs."
why carry out color test using "original" pigment. Isn't that a big no-no?
I am on the fence with this one. The bust being cut vertical may be an issue.
But I have come across some Ethiopian women that look like her.
- - oops beat me to it TL.
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I figured it was very likely old news, but as I am a rather sporadic member of these boards, I sometimes miss the news thats posted. Feel free to delete it...
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A very good fake using ancient pigment. Makes it more convincing to use actual Ancient Egyptian pigmentation. Something easily available at the time.
I think the bust is not entirely a fake. The real face had been sanded down and plastered over.
The missing eye and vertical cut is a clear give away. Fake!
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"I think the bust is not entirely a fake." ????
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Her image is literally everywhere. It can even be found on stamps and paper money in the Arab world. One would have to believe, from all this exposure, this fame, that she was the quintessential Ancient Egyptian queen. The epitome of the Ancient Egyptian lady of antiquity. Small problem though, she doesn't look Egyptian! She doesn't even look like the other portraits we have of her - the ones we rarely see. In fact she looks like a white woman! Strange? Well, so is the story behind this famous bust:
A German excavator by the name of Ludwig Borchardt 'discovered' the painted limestone bust in 1912. (The same year Charles Dawson 'discovered' the fake - British missing link - the Piltdown man. This hoax lasted 40 years.) The circumstances of its export to the Berlin museum were the source of controversy at the time. (Some suggested that Borchardt did a little of the painting himself.) It did not go on exhibit until 1924!
One is immediately reminded of the fake Egyptian figure of Tetisheri, Queen mother of the 17th and 18th dynasties, which also did not look Egyptian. It too, looked like a white woman. The figure was part of an exhibit held by the British museum in 1990. The exhibit was titled "Fake? The Art Of Deception." The Testisheri hoax lasted 100 years.
Now we know that the Berlin bust is also a hoax.
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