The most beautiful sculpture Bust of Nefertiti

Among the ancient works of art, the bust of Nefertiti is arguably the most controversial bust. Nefertiti is a pharaoh queen of ancient Egypt, and this statue is carved according to her face. This statue has the most mainstream aesthetics at the time, with a slender neck, taller cheekbones and a tall nose. It was once considered to be the most beautiful sculpture alongside Venus with a broken arm.

German archaeologist Ludwig Bohart discovered a bust of Nefertiti in Amana, Egypt in 1912. He wrote in his diary: "When this colorful statue was a dugout, I had the most vivid artwork in Egypt. This thing is almost intact, except that the ear is touched a bit, and the left eye is somewhat missing.",

She immediately became the first cover girl in history and was hailed as "the most beautiful woman in the world."

At that time, Egypt was still a British-French colony. Many archaeologists in Britain and France were hunting treasures in Egypt. Naturally, the Germans were not far behind. Under the sponsorship of the Berlin real estate developer James Simon, Bohart joined the treasure hunt. And under the ruins of an earthen building in Amana, Bohart discovered the statue.

It is impossible to verify when and who made this statue. It is only known that it was shaped by Nefertiti, the wife of the pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th dynasty of Ancient Egypt (approximately 1570 BC to approximately 1308 BC). The statue of the Queen of Egypt is 47 cm high and weighs about 20 kg. It does not use any organic materials, so the degree of damage is minimal. The pupil of the character's right eye is inlaid with black natural crystal, the white of the eye is chalky rock, and the eye socket is sealed with beeswax. The entire statue is composed of six colors of gray, yellow, green, black, white and skin tones. Bohart described in his diary: "The application of colors is very advanced, it is indescribable, and all the words are superfluous."

Bohart took the statue to Cairo and managed to obtain permission from Gaston Maspero, then director of the Cairo Museum, to transport the statue to Germany in 1913 and preserve it in James Simon's villa.

In August 2005, the statue was placed in the Old Museum in Berlin. With the completion of the renovation and opening of the new museum on the Berlin Museum Island on October 16, 2009, the statue of Nefertiti, which has been displaced for many years, finally returned to the place where it was originally stored in Germany and became one of all the artworks in Berlin. The treasure of the town hall is estimated at approximately US$390 million.