Nefertiti's Revolutionary History, Hidden By Our Obsession with Her Beauty
Christobel Hastings
Apr 30 2018, 11:31am
Now a pop culture icon, in ancient times, Nefertiti kickstarted religious reform, presided over a cultural revolution, and may well have ruled Egypt in her own right.
It was a sunny afternoon in December, 1912, and a team of archaeologists from the German Oriental Company was excavating Amarna, a long-forgotten Egyptian city on the banks of the Nile river. The team was in pursuit of hidden treasures beneath the hot desert sands. But none of them, not least the supervisor in charge of the dig, Ludwig Borchardt, could have anticipated the wonders that awaited.
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