Documentary:
The Truth about
Queen Nefertiti of Egypt
Duration 44 mins: A few months ago we reported that the German government, despite decades of lobbying and pleading from Egypt, had decided not to return the 3,400-year-old bust of the fabled Queen Nefertiti, back to Egypt where it was taken. Their reason was that the bust was ”too fragile even to be loaned to Egypt”.
So who was Queen Nefertiti? She is reputed to have lived between ca. 1370 BC- ca. 1330 BC and was the wife of Akhenaten, a powerful ruler of the 18th dynasty of Ancient Egypt. As consort–and, according to some historians, co-regent–Nefertiti and her husband led a religious revolution, abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and replacing it with a cult of worship for a single god, Aten. Nefertiti is mostly remembered as a beauty, due in part to a bust of the queen discovered in the early 20th century. The bust in question still remains with the German government.