“Nefertiti’s bust is so perfect; she’s so self-possessed,” Dr. Cheryl Finley, a professor of art history at Spelman College in Atlanta, told CNN. “That’s what really grabs the ...

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 ...

After it was all cleared away, he recalled, “we had the most lifelike Egyptian work of art in our hands.” The Germans were intent on keeping Nefertiti in their hands, too. As the foreign ...