A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF SCULPTURE
The beautiful sculptured head of Q'ueeii Ncfortiti,- with her Egyptian headdress, is very well known and greatly admired on account of the beauty and the dclijate features of this Queen ot Egypt. Ncfcrtiti was the mother-in-law of Tutankhamen, the consort of Akhenaten, the king who substituted the worship of the sun for that of the old gods of Egypt. Akhenaten also greatly encouraged (he revival of art. This bust of painted \sandstone of his wife is among the most exquisite pieces of Egyptian sculpture that have come down to us. It has been called the most beauti ful figure from antiquity. It was found in 1913 at El A mania, by an expedition in which the Gorman Oriental Society were joint workers. According to an arYangemenl made with the Egyptian Museum authorities._ part of the discoveries of such expeditions go to the foreign excavators-, part to the Cairo Museum. Neferfiti's immortal head went to Germany. Egypt afterwards was not satisfied, and-Germany offered to arbitrate. Germany now has the head, and has declined to give it up.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 17 July 1929, Page 7
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