Hint: This one was recently X-rayed, and it was discovered that the covering was fake, done maybe a hundred years ago. But there is a real bust underneath. White people are just full of fun. Click Here For link to News Story
quote: Famed Nefertiti bust a fake, says Swiss art historian.
PARIS: The bust of Queen Nefertiti housed in a Berlin museum and believed to be 3,400 years old in fact is a copy dating from 1912 that was made to test pigments used by the ancient Egyptians, according to Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin.
Stierlin, author of a dozen works on Egypt, the Middle East and ancient Islam, says in a just-released book that the bust currently in Berlin's Altes Museum was made on the orders of German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt on site at the digs by an artist named Gerardt Marks.
"It seems increasingly improbable that the bust is an original," Stierlin told AFP.
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 color test with ancient pigments found at the digs.
But on Dec. 6, 1912, the copy was much admired as an original work by a German prince and the archaeologist "couldn't sum up the courage to ridicule" his guests, Stierlin said.
The historian, who has been working on the subject for 25 years, said he based his findings on several facts. "The bust has no left eye and was never crafted to have one. This is an insult for an ancient Egyptian who believed the statue was the person themself."
He also said the shoulders were cut vertically in the style practiced since the 19th century while "Egyptians cut shoulders horizontally" and that the features were accentuated in a manner recalling that of Art Nouveau.
It was impossible to scientifically establish the date of the bust because it was made of stone covered in plaster, he said.
"The pigments, which can be dated, are really ancient," he added.
Stierlin also listed problems he noted during the discovery and shipment to Germany as well as in scientific reports of the time.
French archaeologists present at the site never mentioned the finding and neither did written accounts of the digs. The earliest detailed scientific report appeared in 1923, 11 years after the discovery.
The archaeologist "didn't even bother to supply a description, which is amazing for an exceptional work found intact".
Borchardt "knew it was a fake," Stierlin said. "He left the piece for 10 years in his sponsor's sitting-room. It's as if he'd left Tutankhamen's mask in his own sitting-room."
Egypt has demanded the return of the bust discovered on the banks of the Nile since it went on display in 1923, depicting a stunning woman wearing a unique cone-shaped headdress.
One of Berlin's prime attractions it will move into its own hall at the newly renovated Neues Museum when it reopens to the public in October. -- AFP
Daily NewsEgypt 2009
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So now we can put to rest that this bust is fake forged and not Ancient egyptian made
Posted by Askia_The_Great (Member # 22000) on :
This is old news.
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
quote:Originally posted by Askia_The_Great: This is old news.
Then why do they still show the Nefertiti Bust?? Don't white people understand that that bust is a FAKE And SHOULD NOT BE USED AS AN EXAMPLE OF NEFERTITI
Nefertiti is a Black African Woman
Never givein to europeans story of Lies, Ancient Greece was more mixed then Ancient Egypt!!
Posted by Archeopteryx (Member # 23193) on :
A video where they talk about Nefertiti and about pictorial representations of her. They also made a reconstruction from the artwork
quote: Nefertiti has one of the most famous faces of the ancient world. Her bust has fascinated millions and inspired a love of Egyptology and Egyptian history in many. What did Nefertiti do? What is her legacy? Do we have her mummy? Is the Berlin bust fake? Finally, what did she really look like? We will take a look at some facial reconstructions together.
quote:Originally posted by Archeopteryx: A video where they talk about Nefertiti and about pictorial representations of her. They also made a reconstruction from the artwork
quote: Nefertiti has one of the most famous faces of the ancient world. Her bust has fascinated millions and inspired a love of Egyptology and Egyptian history in many. What did Nefertiti do? What is her legacy? Do we have her mummy? Is the Berlin bust fake? Finally, what did she really look like? We will take a look at some facial reconstructions together.
Which is BS. First starting with the fact that they exclusively use the Berlin bust as the basis for the model of Nefertiti. The one that shows her as some white woman that many have called fake. Which is the only reason that it is famous because none of the other more powerful queens of the Nile are ever given any attention, except Cleopara who was Greek. And in the reenactment during the video they show a white woman with a bob hair style totally unlike anything ever depicted on Nefertiti. Note that during this era you had the Amarna art style which depicted the royal family with elongated heads much like hose of the Mangbetu in Congo and with similar features. Yet according to them, Nefertiti was really a pale white woman with straight hair, which is obviously a lie. And then they trot out the DNA studies from thousands of years later and ignore the DNA of the Amarna royal family which somehow hasn't been published. If they were so mixed or Eurasian why haven't they published the Amarna DNA?
Also note that in ancient times the town was called Akhekaten, not Amarna. Amarna is named for a tribe of bedouins called the Beni Amran.
There is no real science here. They are promoting what they want to see not what actually existed.
Posted by Archeopteryx (Member # 23193) on :
What do they say at the Berlin Museum regarding the authenticity of the bust? Have they adressed the issue?
Posted by the lioness, (Member # 17353) on :
Posted by Askia_The_Great (Member # 22000) on :
Yea... I'm locking this thread. Call me a "dictator" but Egyptology is about serious up to date topics. Not oldie moldie stuff we've discussed 20 YEARS ago and people already know about. At this point we are wasting time. If you want to have this discussion then perhaps have it in the Deshret. Locked.
