Nefertiti Fake!


Last summer I went to Germany with my Brother and his family (hes my half brother). While in Berlin we went to a museum with an Egyptian exhibition. The Exhibition' prized piece was the mask of Nefertiti. What makes this piece so special is that it is almost fully intact and the paint is still very bright. It was a beautiful piece and my sister in law (to be) Emy actually got yelled at for taking a flash picture of it. It turns out that this piece is a fake! I read an article where some tests were being analyzed on the mask for historical purposes, and they realized that it is only about 100 years old, not 3,400 years old. There was no documentation of the piece EVER being found! The dig where it was supposes to have been found has no description of the item, which would be un- heard of considering the type of find. So it is basically a huge fake and it doesn't even look like anyone tried to check to see if it was real! This piece, which I am sure was VERY expensive for someone, at some point-- has traveled the world and been thought to be one of the best archaeological finds ever. Well it looks so good cause its not even 100 years old people.

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