yego.me
yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

The Mystery of Queen Nefertiti | Lost Treasures of Egypt

less than 1m read
·Nov 11, 2024

[music playing]

NARRATOR: Nestling on the east bank of the Nile, Nefertiti's capital city covered over 3,000 acres, and was home to up to 50,000 people. What is now barren landscape was once one of the greatest cities in the ancient world. And from these palaces and temples, the royal couple ruled over all of Egypt.

She doesn't appear to be buried here, but does this place hold clues to the fate of the missing queen? Nefertiti is famous today because of this iconic bust of her. She has one of the most well-known faces in all of ancient Egypt. This is about the spot that the bust was actually found.

We're in the house and the workshop of a sculptor who was probably called Thutmose. This is where the Nefertiti bust was originally created. It's one version of Nefertiti's official portrait. She may herself have signed off on this image. But really, we have no idea what she looked like in real life.

NARRATOR: Nefertiti's early life is also still a mystery. Her father was probably Ay, vizier to pharaoh Amenhotep III, so she would have been brought up in a royal palace. By the age of just 15, she married Amenhotep's second son, the new pharaoh Akhenaten, and bore him six daughters. As his queen, Nefertiti became the most powerful woman in all of Egypt.

Yet Nefertiti's ultimate fate remains a mystery that occupies archaeologists all over Egypt.

Who versus whom | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy
12 Rules for Life Tour - Brisbane, Australia.

More Articles

View All
If Your Computer Existed In Multiple Universes, It Would Be Way Faster | Big Think.
A quantum computer is a device, a technological device that in principle would harness the full capacity of quantum mechanics to undertake calculations that a standard computer would be absolutely unable to achieve. One way of thinking about it is this. …
Can you solve the monster duel riddle? - Alex Gendler
You’ve come a long way to compete in the great Diskymon league and prove yourself a Diskymon master. Now that you’ve made it to the finals, you’re up against some tough competition. As you enter the arena, the referee explains the rules. There are three D…
Addition using groups of 10 and 100 | 2nd grade | Khan Academy
[Voiceover] So, let’s do some practice problems on Khan Academy exercises that make us rewrite an addition problem so that we can get them to rounder numbers. Numbers that might be multiples of 10, or multiples of 100. So, let’s see here, I have 63 plus…
The Illusion Only Some People Can See
I am going to turn myself into an optical illusion by going through this window right here. Ah, (grumbles) huh. Okay, I’m good, oh, not good. I was gonna say I’m good, I’m not good. Okay, so you’re looking at this window and it looks like it’s turning ar…
Malaria: How Do You Eradicate an Infectious Disease With No Vaccine? | Philip Eckhoff | Big Think
Philip Eckhoff: Disease eradication is a very difficult challenge. It’s been tried for a number of different diseases, but it’s only worked so far for smallpox, which was the first human disease eradicated at the end of the 1970s, and for rinderpest, whic…
Shopping For Affordable Watches With Teddy Baldassarre
Teddy’s learning he’s the grasshopper; he’s learning from the master. That’s the way I look at it. [Laughter] Garbage! You know, when you’re a fashionista like me, you can pick style out five yards away already. I’m kicking Teddy’s ass here; this is amazi…