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 ...

No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains, writes David ...

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Her almond-shaped eyes gaze at us across 3,300 years - and her beauty is simply breathtaking. This is the face of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, stunningly reconstructed by modern science from a ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sometimes the most powerful commentary on a king is made by those who are silent. One morning in Amarna, a village in ...

Tutankhamen, often referred to now as King Tut, is the most well-known of Egypt’s pharaohs due to the 20th century discovery of his remarkable tomb. Inside a stone sarcophagus were three more ...

Queen Nefertiti's bust is a tourist magnet in Berlin, but there are arguments about repatriation.

Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. The film starts with the discovery of her bust by a German archaeologist in 1912 and then ...