Life-sized painted bust of the queen, 47 cm high. With the flat-cut blue wig, which also has a ribbon wrapped around it ...

Since its discovery more than a century ago, the iconic burial mask of King Tut has remained perhaps the defining image of ...

AP The Egyptologist led a team in 2003 to identify a badly damaged mummy as likely belonging to Queen Nefertiti – co-ruler of Egypt under the reign of the monotheistic heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten.

The city was founded by Akhenaten, a king who, along with his wife Nefertiti and his son, Tutankhamun, has captured the modern imagination as much as any other figure from ancient Egypt.

Nefertiti was one of the wives of Tutankhamun's father, the Pharaoh Akhenaten. El-Damaty said it was too early to tell what the metal and organic material could be, saying only that he thinks the ...

Dr Tyldesley said: “Though most people and many Egyptologists believe Nefertiti was an unusually powerful royal woman, and possibly even a pharaoh, I believe this was not the case. “He husband ...

Culture Club/Getty Images Recently discovered by archaeologists, the “Lost Golden City” was abandoned by the heretic King Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti around 1336 B.C. for reasons that are ...

The Egyptologist led a team in 2003 to identify a badly damaged mummy as likely belonging to Queen Nefertiti – co-ruler of Egypt under the reign of the monotheistic heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten.

After Akhenaten's death, events are somewhat obscure, although many scholars believe that Nefertiti may have continued to rule in her own right. Tutankhamun became pharaoh at the age of nine ...

In 1350 BC, Queen Nefertiti together with her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten arrive at Amarna. In the New Kingdom of the 18th Dynasty, Nefertiti and her pet bird embark on a real adventure.

Join us for a talk that reviews the history of the Amarna Period and the lives of King Akhenaten and his Queen Nefertiti. It ...

In Ancient Egypt, during the monotheistic regime of Akhenaten, Akhesa is a beautiful ... palace and wants to discover why her mother, Queen Nefertiti, has been exiled on the island of Elephantine.