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A detailed history of Nefertiti’s life and times is given in Joyce Tyldesley, Nefertiti: Egypt’s Sun Queen (1998). C. Cyril Aldred, Akhenaten and Nefertiti (1973), is an account of Akhenaton’s reign with detailed discussion of Nefertiti. An illustrated exploration of the lives of the Amarna queens is available in Dorothea Arnold, The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt (1996). Rita E. Freed, Sue D’Auria, and Yvonne J. Markowitz (eds.), Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen (1999), offers a consideration of the art and material culture of the Amarna period. Nefertiti and her daughters are examined in historical context in Joyce Tyldesley, Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt (2006).
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| Add new Web site: Egypt Exploration Society - Hatshepsut and Nefertiti: Two Women Who Changed Egypt. | Jul 18, 2026 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - The Forum - Nefertiti: The beguiling Egyptian Queen. | Jan 15, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Egypt Online - Queen Nefertiti. | Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Queen Nefertiti dazzles the modern imagination � but why? | Jun 21, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - The Bust of Nefertiti. | Oct 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Quest to find Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile. | Aug 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Research Centre in Egypt - Nefertiti: Egyptian Wife, Mother, Queen and Icon. | Jul 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - Who was Nefertiti, the ancient Egyptian queen depicted like a goddess? | Apr 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Nefertiti. | Dec 09, 2022 | ||
| Clarified that the modern site of Tell el-Amarna was known in Nefertiti's time as Akhetaton. | Dec 28, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Egyptians - Biography of Nefertiti. | Jan 31, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Mysterious Disappearance of Nefertiti, Ruler of the Nile. | Jan 31, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Research Center in Egypt - Nefertiti: Egyptian Wife, Mother, Queen and Icon. | Sep 04, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Biography of Nefertiti. | Sep 04, 2019 | ||
| Revised statement regarding the location of Nefertiti's portrait bust. | Jul 25, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: SherryArt - Nefertiti. | Apr 09, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancietn Egypt Society - Nefertiti. | Jan 22, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancietn Egypt Society - Nefertiti. | Jan 22, 2013 | ||
| Added image of a sandstone carving of Nefertiti, Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, 14th century BCE. | Oct 01, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: Archaeology - Nefertiti. | Dec 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Looklex Encyclopaedia - Nefertiti. | Dec 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: SherryArt - Nefertiti. | Dec 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Minnesota State University - Nefertiti. | Dec 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Celestial Democracy - Nefertiti. | Dec 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Egypt State Information Service - Nefertiti. | Dec 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: h2g2 - Nefertiti - Queen of Egypt. | Dec 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: KingTutShop - Nefertiti. | Dec 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: KingTutOne.com - Nefertiti. | Dec 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Tour Egypt - Queen Nefertiti. | Dec 18, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Akhet Egyptology - Nefertiti. | Dec 18, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Crystal Links - Nefertiti. | Dec 18, 2007 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Jun 12, 2007 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Jun 12, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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