One hundred years ago, in a courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the world came face to face for the first time with one of its most enduring beauty icons: Queen Nefertiti. Discovered in Egypt in ...

One of the Bay Area's biggest and most talked-about museum shows focuses on life in ancient Egypt -- more than 30 centuries ago -- while pointing dramatically to the future. Titled "Ramses the Great ...

What was supposed to be a historical reconstruction project, showing the face of King Tut's biological mother Queen Nefertiti for the first time, has turned sour, amid accusations of whitewashing. The ...

Bust of Nefertiti in Neues Museum, Berlin Philip Pikart via Wikimedia Commons under CC 3.0 “Life-sized painted bust of the queen, 47 cm high. With the flat-cut blue wig, which also has a ribbon ...