Introduction

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My name is Prince Lcharles Degreat and this is the Queen Nefertiti Story Website. I actually became familiar with Queen Nefertiti not long ago. I had seen photographs of her bust (Head statue) imitations of her in music videos as well as in movies but i didn't know much about her. Just last year i read an article about Egypt claiming the bust of their infamous queen from Germany. The bust is in good shape and about 3,300 years old. It was discovered in 1912 by German archaeologists in Egypt. The bust was made by the royal family's personal sculptor named Thutmoses. Thutmoses had a shop in Karnack where he collected his work. He has also done figures for Nefertiti's mother in law Kiya and her husband King Akhenaten.
There is very little known of the queen. Even the greatest archaeologists are heard using terms such as "Could have been", "Most likely", "Possibly" when they talk about her and her life. Even the most somewhat accurate information that we have of her is based on predictions making her one of the most mysterious yet iconic figures of humanity. She falls in the same category as the lady in The Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo Da Vinci and the girl with the pearl earring by Johannes Vermeer.
We do know that she was the royal chief wife of the king Akhenaten who was so ridiculously in love with his wife that he wanted people to look upon them as equal. A behavior that no Pharaoh never even thought of doing. It also goes to show how infatuated he was with his wife to do such things knowing that she was not his only wife at the time. Akhenaten was very daring and sort of rebellious towards the priests and his father's practices before him. When he became pharaoh he made a lot of changes in Egypt. He would not be fooled by statues or false Gods that people prayed upon before his reign. He wanted to believe in something more meaningful. He and his queen Nefertiti changed the religion from a polytheistic religion to a monotheistic religion in which they believed in one god alone. The sun God, Aten. Aten can also be found in his name Akhen-Aten which means servant of Aten. The king and queen were not liked at all by the priests who had practiced a polytheistic religion for decades and now found themselves being forced to practice something that rejected everything about their culture. Many of them left the kingdom and rebelled against the king. Akhenaten's new religion brought a lot of controversy and perhaps a revolution in which he may have lost his life and left his queen as his successor. Queen Nefertiti loved her husband and stood by him always, even after death. She did rule shortly after his absence but she too disappeared from records. No one knows what really happened to the king and queen. Their bodies are nowhere to be found and it seems that many have tried to rid them from history because they were so against their practices.
Nefertiti means "The beautiful one has come" leading scholars to believe that she may have been a foreigner. Perhaps from Egypt but not any close to the royal family which is unusual because royalty usually married within royalty at that time. There is no actually evidence of blood relation between her and her husband's family. No one even knows who her parents were.
Thanks to royal sculptor Thutmoses who made her bust, Nefertiti's beauty is now frozen in time. Her beauty has truly influenced and changed the standards of feminine beauty in the 20th century as she continues to grow as an icon thanks to photographs of her bust.
I doubt that Nefertiti was just another beautiful Egyptian queen though. Through carvings and paintings of her it explains that there is a reason why she was her husband's favorite. Some say she performed a dance ritual for him daily and also supported him in his actions. Some paintings show her on the same footing as he and in others she is seen smiting the enemy with a dagger. These are all things that only kings were attributed to kings in paintings yet Nefertiti is given that honor. I'm sure that she must have also been admired by her people, maybe not the priests but she must have been beautiful on the inside as well. People of her time have described her in a loving way by using words such as " Heiress, Great of Favours, Possessed of Charm, Exuding Happiness, Mistress of Sweetness, beloved one, soothing the king's heart in his house, soft-spoken in all, Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt, Great King's Wife, whom he loves, Lady of the Two Lands, Nefertiti'" so she must have been loved despite all of the obstacles that fell in her way.
On this site i am drafting a book and giving my interpretation of what the life of this Egyptian infamous queen must have been like. I think it is very interesting that she is still famous 3,300 years after she reigned and should be celebrated as one of the strongest black women to ever live.

I truly appreciate you stopping by and just so you know i post up 2 chapters a week gradually and scroll down for more. Please feel free to post up a comment expressing your criticisms and thoughts about my writing under each post. Thanks!