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Another Nefertiti
Two decades after the discovery of the famous Berlin bust, a chance discovery was made in 1933 of a sculptors’ workshop at Amarna containing another unfinished head of Akhenaten’s queen.
In the Amarna gallery of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is a beautiful, unfinished head of Queen Nefertiti. Although this piece of sculpture is far less famous than the Berlin Nefertiti bust (discovered by a German team in 1912), the story of her discovery is one containing a bit of ‘honeymoon luck’.
The Egypt Exploration Society ran an excavation season at Amarna in Middle Egypt from 1932 to 1933. The excavation architect Hilary Waddington brought his new wife Ruth for the season. On 21 December 1932, while walking over a patch of previously unexcavated ground within the ancient city of Amarna, Ruth tripped over a mud brick. Kneeling down to inspect the brick, she realised that underne
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