africa is a continent full of legends men and women who have greatly impacted the course of
history kings and queens scientists historians and many more who have placed africa as a cradle of
humanity welcome to the legends of africa series where we take a look into the rich and complex
world of our past through the lives of great men and women who we consider today our legends before
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we'll be looking at the beautiful majestic but yet mysterious queen queen afrititi queen nefertiti to
date remains one of the most mysterious queens of egypt and because a lot of information is unknown
many historians with european ancestry have taken advantage and represented her as a white queen
with european features when you search images of queen afrititi you likely come across this
but we all know she was more likely to look like an african you know like people who lived during
that region dark skinned africans let's first look at her history to get to know more about her
nefertiti was born in 1370 bc in the egyptian city of thames at the age of 15 she married pharaoh
akhenaten several years before he came into power and they ruled over egypt from 1353 to 1336 bc
the couple had six daughters two of whom later served as queens during her reign she remodeled
egyptian religion around the sun god at 10 and moved the empire's capital to armana nefertiti
held many titles during her reign such as hereditary princess great of praises lady of grace
sweet of love lady of the two lands main king's wife and his beloved through some of these titles
the love between her and the pharaoh is evident on the walls of the tombs and temples built during
akhenaten's reign nefertiti is depicted alongside her husband in positions of power and authority
driving a chariot or smiting an enemy all this to show she was a powerful and influential queen
the circumstances surrounding nefertiti's death are a mystery as her name disappears from the
historical records at about the 12th year of akinatan's 17-year reign a popular theory
suggests that nefertiti abandoned an old title at that point and became an of official core regent
a lot of speculation surrounds the burst of nephrititi and in recent years syria's doubt
shadows are burst it is assumed that the bust of nefertiti was crafted in 1345 bce by that
most a sculptor and found on 6th december 1912 during an excavation at the middle egyptian site
of tel el marna the excavation campaign was led by the egyptologist and architectural historian
luguid borchardt the past stands at around 19 inches and is made of limestone one of the things
that stands out though is the lack of one eye on the bust this has brought about many doubts sean
greenholtz a convicted forger came forward claimed that the past was a fake clearly describing some
of its inconsistencies he believes that the right eye is genuinely ancient sourced to make the bus
look more ancient but the forger may not have been able to acquire the quartz for the left eye
ludwig borchard searched the area where the bust was claimed to be discovered and could
not find the missing eye he even went ahead and offered a cash reward of 1000 pounds to anyone
who could find it though that never happened perhaps this could be because the bust is a fake
never know you see to ancient egyptians the eyes were considered to be the windows to the soul
and for the queen to be represented without one eye would be very disrespectful
the damage to the bust also adds to this the bust has several areas of damage including the ears
the cobra on her crown and the back of the head however there is no damage to the face to the nose
or to the eyes making it more selective the bust of the african queen has been in germany since
1913 and later shipped to berlin its ownership has been the subject of frequent debate between
egypt and germany in 2015 a copy of the bus caused africans online to mock their sculpture as it had
no resemblance to an actual egyptian lady many africans took to social media making fun of the
new sculptures calling it ugly misrepresentative and another attempt to whitewash egypt
let's state the obvious queen afrititi was an african queen with african features from an
african empire and no form of whitewash in her appearance will ever work on africans what are
your thoughts about today's video do you believe that the past is real or fake does it resemble an
ancient egyptian queen or more of european features let us know in the comments below thank
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