For the culturally curious traveller, here’s a tour of Switzerland, one art museum at a time. Photography fans, art lovers ...
A limestone stela at the Neues Museum features Akhenaten and Nefertiti with three of their daughters beneath the sun god Aten. In Amarna stelae like this were erected as shrines in elite residences.
Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in the ...
Egypt is calling for the Nefertiti bust's return from Germany to Egypt. The bust was removed by German archeologist Borchardt ...
An Egyptian archaeologist has demanded the repatriation of the iconic Queen Nefertiti bust from her Berlin exile.
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Artefacts were also attacked in the Neues Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie and elsewhere. The Neues Museum is home to a bust of Egyptian Pharaoh Nefertiti. Museum Island has been targeted in the past.
New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art reportedly has almost 200 of them alone. Not even artifacts that used to be alive have been kept safe from plunderers. In 1898, a pair of rampaging ...
The island on the Spree consists of five establishments: the Pergamonmuseum, the Bode-Museum, the Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, and the Altes Museum. Among the museums, travelers can ...
A science and technology museum like no other (according to travelers), the Deutsches Museum brims with exhibits on everything from robotics and aviation to bridges and musical instruments.
This September, Hawass launched a petition to urge Germany to return the famous bust of Queen Nefertiti, which is currently housed in Berlin's Neues Museum. "This bust, remarkable and unrivaled in ...