Egyptian queen nefertiti

Nefertiti, an attractive Egyptian pharaoh, looks over her kingdom with a cheetah by her side in the painting style of Malcolm T. Liepke.

Nefertiti is one of the most famous Egyptian queens, second only to Cleopatra. As she lived much earlier, however, Nefertiti’s story is quite mysterious.

"The story of female power in ancient Egypt is a tragedy," argues Kara Cooney, a professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA.

A painted limestone bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, created over 3,000 years ago; on display in Berlin, Germany

As great Egyptian queen, Nefertiti lived between 1370-1330 BC. She is famously known to have been an amazing royal wife of the then pharaoh Akhenaten, and later became ruler in her own right. For many people, there a number of things you never knew about this absolutely powerful Queen.

A look at six facial reconstructions of ancient Egyptians, from the period between circa 15th century BC to the 1st century BC.

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Queen Nefertiti was a powerful and influential queen of ancient...