Restoring queen Nefertiti statue, head on naked women provokes some
Egypt, Local, 6/7/2003

Berlin museum director Detrisch Weldong installed the head of queen Neferiti statue on a bronze-made naked woman, a step that provoked the Egyptian archaeologists and artists.

"The Bronze made statue would hurt the head of Nefertiti," said Zahi Hawas, Supreme Council of Antiquities Secretary General.

"The installation of queen Nefertiti statue's head on a naked woman body could not be accepted by any archaeologist," he added.

Hawas said he briefed Culture Minister Farouq Hosni on this issue, contacts would be held with UNESCO director general and German ambassador in Cairo to restore this priceless and rare monument.

Queen Nefertiti was the Great Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. Her life was a unique adventure that touched the heights and depths of human destiny. She lived both in unspeakable wealth and also in the most bitter loneliness. She was beloved to the point of idolatry, but also was unfathomably hated.

She was affable and proud, happy and desperate, devoted and a fascinating woman. Her parentage is unknown, and she has been said by some to be a Mittanian princess. This is unlikely because she had a sister, Mutnodjme, who as Egyptian and the future wife of the Pharaoh Horemhob.

What is know is that Aye (the brother of Queen Tiye) Tey, both, were probably at least her step-parents. She could very well have been a Royal concubine of Amenhopte III. Amenhotep IV probably married Nefertiti while he was co-regent with his father Amenhopte III. Shortly after his fathers death, Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten (Servant of the Aten), embraced the monotheistic concept of Atemism banned all other Gods and closed their temples.

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