Lavanguardia website admits that there was a hoax in the exodus of Nefertiti statue from Egypt and reveals the existence of another statue

A foreign website published an article about Queen Nefertiti entitled "The Secret Behind the Statue of Nefertiti", and the topic dealt with the story of the Queen's head leaving Egypt, and how Borchardt deceived the discoverer of Nefertiti's head, which indicates that the statue came out illegally from Egypt.

And the “lavanguardia” website says, in the beginning, there is no Egyptian queen whose face is known like that of Nefertiti, not even the mighty Hatshepsut, king of Pharaoh, nor that of the beautiful wife Nefertari of the great Ramses II, who was depicted in the most wonderful tomb in the Valley of the Queens, not to mention Cleopatra VII, which is related to biology Elizabeth Taylor is more than attached to it.

Nefertiti, who participated in the religious revolution of her husband Akhenaten, achieved immortality and world fame thanks to a work of art by the sculptor Thutmose, which was recovered from the desert sands in 1912, through the German archaeological mission Ludwig Borchardt at the massive site of Tell el-Amarna, which sparked controversy from the beginning at that time, Funded mainly by European countries, the excavations shared the results equally with the country of origin, Egypt.

And so the famous bust ended up traveling to Berlin, not without a certain deception, whereupon Borchart, realizing the significance of the piece, hastened to conclude it and present "only a bad picture to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities" at the time, which was naive to give its consent to the distribution suggested by the skilled archaeologist.

A bust of the Queen was first exhibited in 1924, in the Neo Museum, causing great expectations and where, despite urgent calls from Egypt to return home, it is still difficult for him, visited every year by a million people, many of whom head to the North Dome Room. In the Berlin Museum just to see it, two years ago, a labor insurance company estimated it at more than 300 million euros.

The work was transformed from the beginning into a symbol of the beauty of ancient Egypt, and the work was subjected to a detailed study for two years by a team of researchers from the Institute of Imaging Sciences in Berlin led by Alexander Huberts, and the results, published in 2009 in the scientific journal Radiology, were surprising.

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Computed tomography showed what was carried out in 1992, when this technology was not very advanced, and you could not detect it, almost like a matryoshka toy, inside the queen's delicate face was another statue. Specifically, the first "limestone"-style bust also represents the face of Nefertiti, however, this first image is more true to reality, it shows a woman equally beautiful, but with wrinkles in the corners of her lips and cheeks, not prominent cheekbones, high slight nasal septum That is, the real, human and imperfect Nefertiti.

The sculptor Thutmose used a strange processing system to model the face of the queen, adding over the stone carved piece a series of layers of plaster of varying thickness until reaching the final result that we all know and whose image was more perfect than previously thought, and it can be said that the inventor himself performed plastic surgery on his work The original, created about 3,400 years ago, with the aim of having an ideal of beauty, a stylistic code we still admire today, Nefertiti honors the meaning of the name: "The Beautiful Has Arrived".