The Egyptian story ........Nefertiti .... one to listen to

Today I shall be listening to a discussion on Nefertiti and that image of this Egyptian  woman.

Nefertiti

It is on the In Our Time series on BBC Radio 4 today and there after by following the link.

"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who inspired one of the best known artefacts from ancient Egypt. 

The Bust of Nefertiti is multicoloured and symmetrical, about 49cm/18" high and, despite the missing left eye, still holds the gaze of onlookers below its tall, blue, flat topped headdress. 

Its discovery in 1912 in Amarna was kept quiet at first but its display in Berlin in the 1920s caused a sensation, with replicas sent out across the world. Ever since, as with Tutankhamun perhaps, the concrete facts about Nefertiti herself have barely kept up with the theories, the legends and the speculation, reinvigorated with each new discovery.

With, Aidan Dodson, Honorary Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol, Joyce Tyldesley, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Manchester and Kate Spence, Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College

Producer: Simon Tillotson"*

Picture; Picture of the Nefertiti bust in Neues Museum, Berlin,Philip Pikart,2009, I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

*Nefertiti, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vbnb