Nefertiti
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti in 1912 has shaped ideas about her and about life in ancient Egypt and the royal city of Amarna.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who inspired one of the best known artefacts from ancient Egypt. The Bust of Nefertiti is multicoloured and symmetrical, about 49cm/18" high and, despite the missing left eye, still holds the gaze of onlookers below its tall, blue, flat topped headdress. Its discovery in 1912 in Amarna was kept quiet at first but its display in Berlin in the 1920s caused a sensation, with replicas sent out across the world. Ever since, as with Tutankhamun perhaps, the concrete facts about Nefertiti herself have barely kept up with the theories, the legends and the speculation, reinvigorated with each new discovery.
With
Aidan Dodson
Honorary Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol
Joyce Tyldesley
Professor of Egyptology at the University of Manchester
And
Kate Spence
Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Dorothea Arnold (ed.), The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996)
Norman de Garis Davies, The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna (6 vols. Egypt Exploration Society, 1903-1908)
Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb and the Egyptian Counter-reformation. (American University in Cairo Press, 2009
Aidan Dodson, Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: her life and afterlife (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
Aidan Dodson, Tutankhamun: King of Egypt: his life and afterlife (American University in Cairo Press, 2022)
Barry Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People (Thames and Hudson, 2012)
Dominic Montserrat, Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt (Routledge, 2002)
Friederike Seyfried (ed.), In the Light of Amarna: 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery (A虉gyptisches Museum und Papyrussamlung Staatlich Museen zu Berlin/ Michael Imhof Verlag, 2013)
Joyce Tyldesley, Tutankhamun: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma (Headline, 2022)
Joyce Tyldesley, Nefertiti鈥檚 Face: The Creation of an Icon (Profile Books, 2018)
Joyce Tyldesley, Nefertiti: Egypt鈥檚 Sun Queen (Viking, 1998)
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