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lifeisduty

3-4-2007 8:30 PM

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lifeisduty says:

Interesting documentary on the discovery channel, Dr joanne fletchers discovery is pretty remarkable. Anyone watched it? Reply

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/540f5fb2-6f2d-4105-ae9c-3360d736149a/39CB5FB0-88BF-4AF5-9B0B-F830FE3F842B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nefertiti&oldid=112591562" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nefertiti&oldid=112591562" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nefertiti&oldid=112591562"><P><B>Nefertiti</B> (the beauty that has come) was the <A title="Great Royal Wife" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Royal_Wife">Great Royal Wife</A> (or chief consort/wife) of the <A title="Egypt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt">Egyptian</A> <A title="Pharaoh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh">Pharaoh</A> Amenhotep IV (later <A title="Akhenaten" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten">Akhenaten</A>), and the mother in law and probable stepmother of the Pharaoh <A title="Tutankhamun" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun">Tutankhamun</A>. She may have also ruled in her own right under the name Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti (meaning, the <A title="Aten" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten">Aten</A> is radiant of radiance because the Beautiful has arrived) briefly after her husband's death and before the accession of Tutankhamun. Her name roughly translates to "the beautiful (or perfect) woman has come". She also shares her name with a type of elongated gold bead, called <I>nefer</I>, that she was often portrayed as wearing. She was made famous by her <A title="Bust (sculpture)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_%28sculpture%29">bust</A>, now in <A title="Altes Museum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altes_Museum">Berlin's Altes Museum</A>, shown to the right. The bust is one of the most copied works of <A title="Ancient Egypt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt">ancient Egypt</A>. It was attributed to the sculptor <A title="Thutmose (sculptor)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thutmose_%28sculptor%29">Thutmose</A>, and was found in his <A title="Workshop" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workshop">workshop</A>. The bust itself is notable for exemplifying the understanding Ancient Egyptians had regarding realistic facial proportions.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/39CB5FB0-88BF-4AF5-9B0B-F830FE3F842B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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