nefertiti bust stolen

The bust of Nefertiti, the Council counter-claims, was actually stolen in 1913 using illegal documents. But this bust of Nefertiti is the statue or the head of an Egyptian queen made of plaster-covered limestone," Hawass told Deutsche Welle. Just this past week, Hawass convinced the Louvre in Paris to return 3,200-year-old painted wall fragments from that were stolen from a tomb excavation in 1975. Nefertiti's bust remains on display in Berlin and attracts nearly a half a million visitors each year. ALAMY. Stolen treasures: Art and artefacts that are wanted back ... Berlin's Neues Museum has been urged to give up the bust of Nefertiti, which dates back to 1,345BC. So far, Germany has rejected any and all attempts to return Nefertiti's Bust to Egypt. The paintings had been stolen from an excavation in 1975. Credit: Oliver Lang/DDP/AFP/Getty. She was reknown for her beauty, as depicted by her limestone bust… “Nefertiti is returning to the place where it was found. A bust of Nefertiti held by Berlin's National Museums. As Germany celebrates the centennial anniversary of the discovery of the iconic bust of the beautiful Queen Nefertiti, Egypts argument for its return includes a tale of deceit A limestone bust of Egypt's queen Nefertiti is on display at the Neues Museum, Berlin. Last week, news circulated widely that two artists (Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles) had surreptitiously scanned the bust of Nefertiti in the Neues Museum in Berlin and publicly, freely released the 3-d scanning code to enable reproductions of the bust either virtually or with 3d printers. The bust of Nefertiti is one of the high-profile items Hawass is demanding. Hawass began his quest in 2002 and has been very successful at working with museums around the world to return artifacts that were genuinely stolen back to the Egyptian people. Egypt has claimed that Germany took the work illegally. Therefore, it must be returned. Hawass pressured the museum to hand over the artifacts by suspending their current excavation in southern Cairo. There is currently an ongoing campaign on behalf of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities to bring the bust back to Egypt, even if for a temporary loan. Hawass confirmed that Egypt was able to prove that the bust of Queen Nefertiti left Egypt illegally and that it was stolen. Queen Nefertiti (1370-c. 1330) ruled Ancient Egypt with her husband Akhenaten (aka Amenhotep IV). Egypt’s antiquities chief says if persuasion doesn’t work, he will fight for an ancient bust of Nefertiti that a Berlin museum maintains is too fragile to ever travel. A 3,300-year-old limestone and stucco bust of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt captured the attention of visitors at the newly restored Neues Museum in Berlin, a facility destroyed in WWII.

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