Let’s be honest – we’ve all seen that face. It’s the impossibly symmetrical features, the knowing half-smile, and that blue crown. It looks both ancient and utterly contemporary. This isn’t just an ...

The final highlight of the Neues Museum tour focuses on the world's most famous and controversial Egyptian family: the Amarna royals. Meet the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten—son of Queen Tiye—and see the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will formally ask Germany to return a bust of Queen Nefertiti after a Berlin museum official presented papers showing the 3,400-year-old treasure was taken unethically, Egypt's ...

(CNN) — 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 ...