Even
though the world and all in it are forever changing, a few things never
do, not in principals, like the effort all females are willing to
invest in their beauty. Or the appreciation of it on the male's part. Or the artist's ideas to express it.
A computerized tomography has revealed the real face of Queen Nefertiti, hidden underneath an external layer of her very well known sculpture: she had wrinkles round the corners of her lips and on the cheeks, less prominent jawbones, with an imperfect nose.
Some 3,300 years ago, the artists who was commissioned to sculpt on stone but, afterwards, decided to add a new plaster layer over the original version of the bust, adapting small changes according to the aesthetic beauty of the era. So confirmed a team of investigators of Imaging Science Institute of Berlin, in the Scientific Radiology magazine.
The magnetism of the bust of Nefertiti, wife of Pharaoh Akenaton, has captivated archeologists and ordinary observers ever since 1912, the year when it was discovered by a German, Ludwig Borchardt in likely the burial ground between Luxor and Cairo. After submitted the rare and precious sculpture to computerized tomography giving 64 spiral cuts, the investigators not only found the sculpture in the state of good conservation, but also it's true face.
After being regarded as a very beautiful queen for 3,300 years, I wonder whether the queen was of the character that would be glad to be finally seen as her true self, or would she be annoyed that she couldn't continue with her reputation of being a beautiful queen any more? Personally I think she looked just fine as she really was.
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