The Queen Of Ancient Egypt And Germany

In October 2025, we saw two postings about the most valuable objects in the world. These postings were "The Kohinoor Diamond Story" and "The Holy Crown Of Hungary". Let's have a look at another of what be the most valuable single object in the world. It is the bust of Nefertiti. Image from the Wikipedia article by that name.

Nefertiti was the Queen of Akhenaten. This was the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh of ancient Egypt who famously tried to convert Egypt to an early form of monotheism. Since Akhenaten built a new capital at Amarna, this time is known as the Amarna Period. Akhenaten was the father of Tutankhamun, although Nefertiti was not Tutankhamun's mother.

But Akhenaten fell out of favor just as soon as he died, and his religious reforms were reversed. The tombs of Akhenaten and Nefertiti have never been positively identified.

You may be wondering how on earth someone could be the queen of both ancient Egypt and Germany. Ancient Egypt was in the distant past, while Germany didn't exist as a united nation until 1871. What happened is that a German archeological team found the bust in the studio of a sculptor. It was identified as being of Nefertiti, and there were other unfinished sculptures of her.

The Bust of Nefertiti has since been displayed in Berlin and has become the face of the ancient Middle East, rivalled only by the sarcophagus of her stepson Tutankhamun. I have had this book since I was a child. It is part of a series but I only ever had the first volume. It is what got me interested in ancient history.

The Bust of Nefertiti was brought to Germany at the time of the Kaisers. After the end of the monarchy, the bust was actually proclaimed as the Queen of Germany. This is similar in concept to the Holy Crown of Hungary, where it is the crown itself that rules and the king is just someone who is worthy to wear it. There is also a similarity to Venice, where the bones of St. Mark were brought to the city and he became it's patron saint.

Here is a link to the posting about the spiritual significance of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and, Tutankhamun.

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