"We announce today that Egypt - this is the national committee, it is not a government committee - asks for the return of the bust of Nefertiti, and this is the letter, what I need from everyone here ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues ...

One hundred years ago, in a courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the world came face to face for the first time with one of its most enduring beauty icons: Queen Nefertiti. Discovered in Egypt in ...

Bust of Nefertiti in Neues Museum, Berlin Philip Pikart via Wikimedia Commons under CC 3.0 “Life-sized painted bust of the queen, 47 cm high. With the flat-cut blue wig, which also has a ribbon ...

CAIRO — The splendor of the Queen of the Nile is the star not of any Egyptian museum, but of the Neues Museum in the German capital, Berlin, where thousands admire the 3,400-year-old bust of Nefertiti ...

On a sunny afternoon on Dec. 6, 1912, an Egyptian worker at a dig along the banks of the Nile came across what may be the most striking find in the history of Egyptology. Ludwig Borchardt, the German ...

CAIRO -- Egypt's antiquities chief said Sunday he will formally demand the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti from a Berlin museum after confirming it was sneaked out of Cairo ...

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BERLIN, Jan 28 (Reuters Life!) - Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said on Friday that Germany would not send the bust of an ancient Egyptian queen to modern-day Egypt because it was obtained nearly a ...