Bust of Egypt's legendary beauty Queen Nefertiti in Berlin's Old Museum. German researchers have uncovered her second, hidden face (AFP/DDP/File/Oliver Lang).
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BERLIN – Researchers in Germany have used a modern medical procedure to uncover a secret within one of ancient Egypt's most treasured artworks — the bust of Nefertiti has two faces. A team led by Dr. Alexander Huppertz, director of the Imaging Science Institute at Berlin's Charite hospital and medical school, discovered a detailed stone carving that differs from the external stucco face when they performed a computed tomography, or CT, scan on the bust. More>>
Undated photo composite released 3/31/09 by the Radiological Society of North America. Researchers in Germany have used a CT scan to uncover a secret inside one of ancient Egypt's most treasured artworks — the bust of Nefertiti has two faces.
The differences between the faces, though slight — creases at the corners of the mouth, a bump on the nose of the stone version underneath — suggest to Dr. Alexander Huppertz a makeover. Huppertz, director of the Imaging Science Institute at Berlin's Charite hospital and medical school, believes someone expressly ordered the adjustments (the makeover) between stone and stucco. This would have been done when royal sculptors immortalized the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten 3,300 years ago (AP/Radiological Society of North America).
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