Where is Nefertiti?

Where is Nefertiti?

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This image combines an original charcoal drawing and sketch and appropriations of photographs by National Geographic of the tomb and stone statue of Queen Nefertiti. I have used painting, comping and blending tools in Photoshop CS3 to make this composite image.

Where is Nefertiti?
Nefertiti floats round in the tomb of eternity as Anubis the jackal headed God searches for her. It is likely that Nefertiti died as a Queen with crook and flail, but her body has never been found and identified with absolute certainty.

Nefertiti married the Pharaoh Amenhotep IV who later became known as Akhenaton. Together they had six daughters. One of these daughters married the boy King Tutankhamen. Akhenaton, unlike any Egyptian Pharaoh transformed religious practices and abandoned all the Gods of Egypt and declared only one god, Aten the Sun God as supreme. Akhenaton also decided to construct a new city north of Thebes as the capital. He named the new city Akhenaton. This strange and unusual Pharaoh supported the arts and insisted that artists work toward true realism, not idealization. Physical malformations were to be shown and examples show Akhenaton himself suffering from Marfan syndrome with unusually long limbs and female characteristics. At this time the very famous limestone bust of Nefertiti was made. “The beautiful one’ with the graceful elongated neck and perfect features was an extraordinary masterpiece of elegance and naturalism.

In 1335 Nefertiti seemed to vanish. She died in the twelfth year of Akhenaton’s reign and her tomb was never completed. Inscriptions indicate that in his seventeenth year as King, Akhenaton died. It is suspected that they were both murdered. In the following years their deaths provoked tremendous argument. King Tutankhamen took power some four years later. The names of Akhenaton and his God were eradicated and their temples were torn down. The city, Amarna as it became known was gradually abandoned. In June 2002 Egyptologist Joanne Fletcher and her team believed they had found the very mutilated mummy of Nefertiti, but nothing is certain.

Nefertiti, the beautiful one still commands a tremendous presence. She is ancient but never forgotten.

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