Nefertiti bust a fake

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The bust of Queen Nefertiti housed in a Berlin museum and believed to be 3,400 years old in fact is a copy dating from 1912 that was made to test pigments used by the ancient Egyptians, according to Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin.

Stierlin, author of a dozen works on Egypt, the Middle East and ancient Islam, says in a just-released book that the bust currently in Berlin's Altes Museum was made on the orders of Germany archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt on site at the digs by an artist named Gerardt Marks.

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[Lady Amethyst]

There's something odd about this whole thing.

[louie]

so how come the profesionals, could not tell the diffrence between 3000 years old an 19th century

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I seriously doubt their credibility

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[Xammu]

Hmmm, what comes to mind when you hear the word "bust"?

[Dayne]

The phrase "antiquitiy smuggling" comes to mind. If curators of all the musuems were honest I'm sure we'd find that over 50% of their inventory is fake. The real treasures are in private hands.