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• The Ancient Egyptian bust of Queen Nefertiti.

• Of this period is the famous painted bust of Nefertiti.

• Egyptians compared the Nefertiti statue to Frankenstein’s monster.

• Queen Tye and Nefertiti are also separated from Akhnaten, who is finally killed.

• Akhenaten married the noblewoman Nefertiti about the time he became pharaoh, in 1353 BCE.

• For much of history, Nefertiti was known as the Great Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten.

• Aten, the sun god, is glorified by Akhnaten, his wife Nefertiti, and Queen Tye, his mother.

• Akhenaton had six daughters by Nefertiti and possibly a son, perhaps by a secondary wife Kiya.

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• The tomb of Queen Nefertiti, one of the most celebrated Egyptian royals, has never been found.

• Akhenaten and Nefertiti ruled with unusually equal status, and they were often portrayed together.

• He wore a gold pendant of Nefertiti that he hasn’t taken off since he bought it, in Egypt, in 1982.

• The Family Akhnaten and Nefertiti dwell in an insular world of their own creation with their six daughters.

• Ay’s wife, Tey, also served as the nurse of Nefertiti, Akhenaton’s queen, and it has been surmised that Ay and Tey were her parents.

• They commissioned a replica of one of Egypt’s best-known works: the striking bust of Nefertiti carved in 1345BC, her slender features topped by an imposing blue crown.

• In such portrayals Akhenaton was placed at ground level, bathed in the sunlight descending from the disk and often accompanied by his queen, Nefertiti, and one or more of their daughters.

• Among other major archaeological finds were portrait busts of Queen Nefertiti in the house of the sculptor Thutmose, as well as 300 cuneiform tablets accidentally discovered in 1887 by a peasant woman.

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• In the early 1990s Paglia published three books that embodied her unconventional opinions: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (1992), and Vamps & Tramps: New Essays (1994).

• The Amarna period also produced a number of sculptures of exquisite refinement, including the painted portrait bust of Nefertiti found in the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose, perhaps the most famous embodiment of female beauty from the ancient Middle East.

• Stretching back to the first written epic, Gilgamesh (whose protagonist was, in fact, an actual king), history, particularly as it is traditionally taught, is composed almost entirely of the exploits of the famous: Nefertiti, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Muhammad, and Joan of Arc.

• It also added a rival scientist in the form of the high-camp Dr Septimus Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), a hissing bride (Elsa Lanchester) whose make-up resembled the recently discovered ancient Egyptian portrait bust of Nefertiti, and a cheeky prologue in which Percy Shelley said to Mary that it was a shame her story of Frankenstein had ended quite so suddenly - to which she replied, ‘Oh no, that wasn’t the end at all.’