A computerised reconstruction of the face believed to belong to famed Egyptian beauty Queen Nefertiti is seen in this handout photo issued Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003. Built from a mummy discovered by British Egyptologist Joann Fletcher, the face is revealed as part of a Sept. 7, 2003, program on the Discovery Channel following Fletcher's work in uncovering what she believes is the tomb of Nefertiti.
A bust of ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti ... tests have shown that a mummy found in KV35, the tomb of Amenhotep II, may be Nefertiti, whose life has been shrouded in mystery for over 3,000 years.
This May 18, 1995 file photo shows the 5000-year-old bust of Nefertiti on display at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt«s Supreme Council of Antiquities, claims that the director of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin created a "disgraceful display" and could have damaged the piece when he allowed contemporary sculptors to pair Nefertiti with their bronze nude for a project that is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's most prestigious contemporary art festivals.
FILES) A file picture taken on August 12, 2005, shows the bust of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt in Berlin's Old Museum. Egypt will demand Germany return an ancient bust of Queen Nefertiti if a document suggesting it was fraudulently spirited out of the country is authentic, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on February 11, 2009
The 3.300 years-old bust of Nefertiti sits in an exhibition in the Kulturforum in Berlin on Tuesday, March 1, 2005. The bust of Nefertiti moved here last night from Berlin's Egyptian Museum before it will relocate to the "Altes Museum" on the Museumsinsel in Berlin on Aug. 8. 2005. The collection of Berlin's Egyptian Museum was divided into a West and East Berlin part at the end of World War II and will finally return from former West Berlin to its historic location on the Museumsinsel in the former eastern part of the city
Mummy believed to be Nefertiti, lying in a side chamber of royal tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings. Taken February 2003.
The bust of Queen Nefertiti (1340 BC) will soon be moving to a downtown Berlin museum. Here the bust is seen in the more distant museum where the Egyptian collection has been on display for many years.
The bust of Nefertiti is displayed in an exhibition room in Berlin's Altes Museum in this August 12, 2005 file photo. Nefertiti, an ancient Egyptian queen regarded as the Mona Lisa of the ancient world, may not have been such a looker after all, German scientists said on March 31, 2009. A delicately carved face in the limestone core of the famous bust of Nefertiti suggests the royal sculptor at the time may have smoothed creases around the mouth and fixed a bumpy nose to depict the "Beauty of the Nile" in a better light
