She is an enduring global symbol of beauty, power and mystery who has fascinated Hitler, Beyonce and Arab Spring activists alike: Queen Nefertiti, whose name translates to "the beautiful one has come, ...

Egypt first demanded Nefertiti’s return in 1924, just one year after her public debut. They argued that archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt allegedly wrapped the bust to conceal its true value and smuggled ...

"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 ...

Egypt's top archaeologist has formally requested the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti that has been in a Berlin museum for decades, the latest move in his eight-year-old campaign ...

A petition launched early last month calling for the repatriation of a bust depicting the Ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti from Berlin’s Neues Museum has reached nearly 10,000 signatures. “Egypt has ...

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 ...

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 ...