Bust of Nefertiti at the Neues Museum, Berlin

    TitleBust of NefertitiArtistUnknownDateNew Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1345 BCMediumLimestone and stuccoDimensionsHeight, 50 cmAccession #Inv.No. ÄM 21300CreditDiscovered in 1915: Amarna, Egypt Considered as being The Sun Queen, she sits in her room at the Egyptian Museum, gazing through the rooms of the museum, catching eyes with the statue of the sun-god Helios from Alexandria. The busyt was created around 1340BC by the court sculpture Thutmose, in whose studio in Amarna Nefertiti stood as