Going home, Nefertiti?

The beauty of Queen Nefertiti,

married to Akhenaten (formerly Akhenamon), is such, that visitors are drawn to her at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Having seen many reditions of this famous bust, I fell in love with it early on.

I guess, one could call her the Egyptian Mona Lisa. She seems to smile as serenely and has for over 3,300 years! Or maybe she's just looking down her aristocratic nose at the 'barbarian' admirers ;-) ? After all she was a Queen! This may be farfetched, but.....there is something about her that reminds me of self portraits ofMexican painter Frida Kahlo.

But back to Egypt.Akhenaten believed in a one god=sun religion and build for it a new Capital Amarna.
He also seemed to have insisted on being portrayed as in real life, so we may assume that he did indeed looked that, and that Nefertiti's beauty was not exaggerated by the artist.
Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their daughters in devotion to the ATEN=Sun!
His new religion did not survive his death and Egypt reverted to pantheism.
The bust was, so we are told, legally acquired by the German Archeologist Ludwig Borchard for Prussia in early 1900's.

Egypt has recently pursued her 'wandering' artifacts, and calling them 'home'. Many of which can be found in musea worldwide.

Should the British Museum 'loan back' the Rosetta stone, a basalt slab dating to 196 BC which held the key to deciphering hieroglyphs, to the Egyptian government, it would drop demanding the full repatriation! Egypt did demand, and brought 'home' fragments of 3,200 year old tomb which had been at the Louvre.

The story of this unusual Egyptian Pharao and his beautiful wife has inspired writers and artists. Among them Philip Glass (premiere at HGO) and, more recently, Michelle Morgan with her novel "Nefertiti".

"Nefertiti" composed by Wayne Shorter- Enjoy!