Let’s be honest – we’ve all seen that face. It’s the impossibly symmetrical features, the knowing half-smile, and that blue crown. It looks both ancient and utterly contemporary. This isn’t just an ...

A 3D model of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti’s face has sparked a race row — with many claiming it should be darker. Working from the mummy, scientists from the University of Bristol brought the ...

On a sunny afternoon on Dec. 6, 1912, an Egyptian worker at a dig along the banks of the Nile came across what may be the most striking find in the history of Egyptology. Ludwig Borchardt, the German ...

A famous 3,300-year-old bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti has been moved to its new permanent home at Berlin’s restored Neues Museum. The city’s museum authority says in a statement that officials ...

"We announce today that Egypt - this is the national committee, it is not a government committee - asks for the return of the bust of Nefertiti, and this is the letter, what I need from everyone here ...

Lauded for her African beauty, Nefertiti is one of the most famous queens of ancient Egypt –which is why the TODAY show’s more Caucasian-looking reconstructed bust left many people scratching their ...

An X-ray scan of the 3D printed Nefertiti bust. Nora Al- Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles with the 3D printed bust at the American University in Cairo. Nora Al- Badri ...

It seemed like the perfect digital heist. The Nefertiti bust, created in 1345 B.C., is the most famous work in the collection of Berlin’s Neues Museum. The museum has long prohibited visitors from ...

A petition launched early last month calling for the repatriation of a bust depicting the Ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti from Berlin’s Neues Museum has reached nearly 10,000 signatures. “Egypt has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...