100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery

To mark the finding date of Nefertiti's bust on the 6th December 1912 the Neues Museum Berlin shows a special exhibition on the Amarna period at Neues Museum.

A hundred years ago archaeologist found the bust of the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti in Tell el-Amarna, also known as the Egyptian city Akhetaton. To remind the finding date the exhibition shows never-before-seen discoveries from several museums throughout the world. They put Nefertiti's era in a cultural-historical context which provides a proper understanding of this ancient time.

The exhibition places the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti within the context of Borchardt's excavations in 1912 and 1913. It illuminates the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti in the sculpture workshop of ancient Egyptian artisan Thutmose. Even though the exhibition focuses on archaeology, it also critically examines the history of the depiction of the bust of Nefertiti both as an archaeological object and as a widely marketed ideal of beauty.

Where: Neues Museum, Bodestraße 1-3