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Nefertiti
N103
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Beauty of
Egypt
50 cm
/ 19 1/2 inches of brilliant aqua, red, yellow and
cobalt blue glass beads with a 5/8 inch rondelle
(sideways strung round) bead in the center.
This necklace
can be worn together with Nefertiti N2.
Sterling
silver clasp -
one of a kind necklace
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| Nefertiti
N203
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Desert Glow
45 cm
/ 17 3/4 inches of brilliant aqua, red and cobalt
blue glass beads
Sterling silver
clasp - one of a kind necklace
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| Nefertiti N303
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Magic of
the Nile
38.5
cm / 15 1/8 inches of yellow and red glass beads
with (dyed) green mountain jade round
beads
Sterling silver clasp - one of a kind
necklace
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| Nefertiti N403
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Heart of
the Kingdom
50 cm
/ 18 7/8 inches of brilliant yellow and black glass
beads
Sterling
silver clasp - one of a kind necklace
$33.95
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| Nefertiti NE105
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Coral
Queen
50 cm
/ 18 7/8 inches of cherry red (color enhanced)
coral and glass beads + matching earrings
Designer
silver clasp - one of a kind necklace
$99.95
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BIO Nefertiti is famous because
we know what she looked like - she was beautiful - and because
she was married to Akhenaton, Egypt's heretic
pharaoh who overthrew the established gods and set up the
worship of one god, the Aton (Aten), an aspect of the sun.
Akhenaton may have introduced monotheism,
but he weakened Egypt, and like so many pharaohs, married
at least one of his daughters. Nefertiti, whose title
was Great Royal Wife, couldn't have been thrilled with this,
but she had other co-wives to contend with as well as her
place in the power hierarchy.
At that point, everything becomes
misty - largely because as soon as Akhenaton died, the priests
who supported the old gods of Egypt (like Amon) made sure
Akhenaton's name was erased from every public inscription
they could find.
King Tut, Tutankhamon (Tutankhaton)
became king sometime after Aknenaton (there may have been
another pharoah, Smenkare, in between) and Nefertiti vanished
from history. Tut died at 19 and his wife,
a daughter of Nefertiti and Akhenaton, didn't last
long - but she's another story. Nancy
PS In
the famous bust of Nefertiti (see poster below) that is
displayed in the Berlin Museum, she is wearing what appears
to be a blue headpiece or crown. I would swear I read
somewhere this was her version of the war crown of the pharaohs.
If so, this could confirm recent speculation that Nefertiti
acted as pharaoh either during her husband's reign or
afterward under the name of Smenkare. However, the
mummy of a young man, who may well have been Smenkare was
found in in 1907 in KV55,
a tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor. Or not.
Crown info: http://www.egyptologyonline.com/pharaoh's_crowns.htm
In Treasures of the Pharaohs
by Delia Pemberton, the author lists a number of women
who held the power or claimed the title of pharoah:
- Sobekneferu (reigned 1799 -
1795 BCE)
- Hatshepsut (reigned 1479 -
1458 BCE)
- Neferneferuaten / Smekara
(Neferititi?)
- Taurset / Towosret (reigned
1188 - 1186 BCE)
The Discovery Channel produced a very
interesting program about Nefertiti, Nefertiti
Resurrected, which showcases the
possible discovery of Nefertiti's mummy. Because of
the Ankenaton heresy, his family was not officially buried
in the Valley of Kings, and the whereabouts of their final
tombs and remains is unclear.
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A quick click will take you to another
mini-review of Elizabeth Peters' delightful
series about Egyptologist-detective Amelia
Peabody. That woman, her parasol and her family
never fail to intrigue against a background
of turn of the century (19th to 20th) turmoil
and ancient marvels.
Peters also wrote an intersing history of Egypt, Temples, Tombs & Hierogylphs, under her real name of Dr. Barbara Mertz. Be sure to get the revised edition.
But Peters and Kristen
Whitbread have also produced Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium,
which takes us back to Amelia's era and
the early days of archaeology. It's
fascinating. Nancy
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Egypt, 4000 Years of Art, is
the kind of eye opening book I love to leaf
through. It's a chronological history
of some of the masterpieces we all recognize
interspersed with many new (to me) treasures. There's
also interesting commentary. Did you
know there really was a Scorpion King?
Similarities between the guy in the prequel
to The Mummy series probably
end with the name, but ... Nancy
PS You will
also like Egyptian Treasures from
the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
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Two interesting novels about Nefertiti both bear her name. Nick Drake looks at the story from the eyes of a Egyptian investigator working to save the lives of his family and his own, while Michelle Moran fictionalizes the life of Nefertiti's sister, Mumodjmet, who became queen of Egypt as the dynasty that brought us King Tut was ending. Both cry out for sequels. Nancy
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Tom
Tierney paper dolls for the collector in all of
us.
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It's no secret I adore mysteries and review
them all over the pages of this website.
- If you are a fan, make sure you check
out Lynda S. Robinson's Egyptian series, which features
a detective who muses about the fate of Nefertiti.
The first volume is Murder in the Place of Anubis.
- Judith Tarr is always good for a
comfortable historical read. Her Piller of Fire,
about Akhenaton, is fiction at its most entertaining.
I have not yet read Nefertiti or Pharaohs of the Sun, but they are on my list.
One of my favorite mystery writers, P.
C. Doherty, has given us a serious and scholarly investigation
into the death of King Tut in The Mysterious Death of
Tutankhamun. Tut, perhaps Nefertiti's stepson
and definitely her son-in-law, wouldn't be at all well known
except for his borrowed grave goods that screamed Egypt's glories
since their discovery. His skeleton reveals extreme physical
weakness and well, read the book for yourself. Nancy
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Though I can remember
almost falling asleep at my 93rd reading of books about a
certain family of bears my kids loved, I generally like to read children's
books.
I picked up Casting the
Gods Adrift by Geraldine McCaughrean and
found an interesting take on the Nefertiti story I hadn't
encountered for years - a reminder that her husband, mad,
ill or bad ruler that he was, was also one of the first
monotheists in history. McCaughrean's book is
sympathetic to Akhenaton, and though I've come to loathe him
myself, I thought the storyline was clever. It will
appeal older readers with an interest in Egyptology. Nancy
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