Author Michelle Moran brought the notorious Egyptian queen to life in her well-liked book Nefertiti – and is thrilled by what the possible discovery of Nefertit’s tomb could teach us about her lifeIn the windswept,hot, sandy Egyptian desert in 1912, or a German archaeological team headed by Ludwig Borchardt was excavating a long-forgotten city that had a mysterious history. Borchardt unearthed a stunning bust that had been buried in the rubble for more than 3300 years,a face that would soon become notorious worldwide: Nefertiti.
Over the next 100 years, archaeologists and Egyptologists would slowly piece together the sage of a controversial cultural and religious revolution that swept across ancient Egypt under the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti.
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Source: theguardian.com