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Her power was rivaled only by her beauty. Her face has become one of the most recognizable images in the world. She was an independent woman and thinker centuries before her time. But who was Egypt's Queen Nefertiti? After years of intense research, Dr. Joann Fletcher has answered the questions countless researchers before her could not. While studying Egyptian royal wigs, she read a brief mention of an unidentified and mummified body, discovered long ago and believed to belong to an Egyptian of little importance. This body happened to have a wig, which Dr. Fletcher knew was a clear sign of power. After examining the hairpiece and the woman to which it belonged, to the astonishment of her colleagues she identified this body as the missing remains of Queen Nefertiti. The search for Nefertiti had ended. She had been found. But the questions were just beginning. Nefertiti first rose to prominence in Egyptology in 1912, when a three-thousand-year-old bust of the queen was unearthed and quickly became a recognizable artifact around the world. But pieces of Nefertiti's life remained missing. The world had seen what she looked like, but few knew about her place in history. Virtually nothing is recorded about Nefertiti's early years. What is known about her life starts with her rise to power, her breaking through the sex barrier to rule as a virtual co-Pharaoh alongside her husband, Akhenaten. Upon his death she took full control of his kingdom. The Egyptian people loved her and celebrated her beauty in art, but the priests did not feel the same way. They believed Nefertiti's power over her husband was so great that she would instill her monotheistic beliefs upon him, rendering their own power obsolete. Egyptologists concur that it was these priests who, upon Nefertiti's death, had her name erased from public record and any likeness of her defaced. This ultimately led to her being left out of history for three thousand years.
- Sales Rank: #139282 in Books
- Published on: 2004-12-31
- Released on: 2004-09-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.41" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 464 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Oftentimes, the best scholarship uses the investigation of one thing (such as a historical episode or a scientific anomaly) to speak to wider human and cultural truths. Fletcher’s study of the life of the legendary queen Nefertiti is scholarship in just this sense. A learned and intensely personal book, it spans Fletcher’s near-lifelong involvement with the study of Egyptian culture, from her first trip to Egypt as a teenager in 1981 to her most recent excavation in February 2003. Along the way, she provides the reader with a concise introduction to ancient Egyptian history as well as a rough guide to the shifting ideological landscape of professional Egyptology over the last 200 years. Colored by patriarchal assumptions and the personal ambitions of the men who first excavated the desert, Egyptology tends to focus on the most powerful men of ancient Egypt: kings ruling their country (and families) with unquestioned authority. This book is in part an attempt to correct such biases and challenge reigning assumptions about gender roles in ancient Egypt. Fletcher specializes in the study of "everyday" objects like hair, jewelry and clothing that are often passed over or discarded by Egyptologists. The sections of the book devoted to them offer compelling revelations about the identities of anonymous royal figures and the complex relations among and within dynasties. Ultimately, whether or not readers agree with the hypothesis Fletcher draws from her thrilling examination of the so-called Younger Woman (who she believes is Nefertiti) interred in tomb KV.35 in the Valley of Kings is irrelevant; this book is an inspiring record of a life devoted to the highest scholarship. 24 pages of color photos.
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Review
“The narrative conveys Fletcher’s enthusiasm for her work and is supplemented with an excellent bibliography. Highly recommended.” (Library Journal)
“Fascinating...Fletcher picked up on the tiniest of clues to track down what she believes could be the missing queen.” (Daily Mail (London))
“A learned and intensely personal book... compelling revelations... a thrilling examination.” (Publishers Weekly)
About the Author
Dr. Joann Fletcher is an honorary research and teaching fellow at the University of York, where she teaches Egyptian funerary archaeology and mummification. The author of numerous articles and books, she also lectures widely. She lives in Yorkshire, England.
Most helpful customer reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Not what you would think
By Mindy Roth
While I hourly enjoyed reading this book, it certainly was not about the search for Nefertiti's mummy. In fact, that is a relatively small part of this book. Instead the book mainly focuses on the Amarna period of ancient Egypt as well as the author's education and interests in the hairstyles of the ancient Egyptians.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Book!
By Ms.Issy
I truly enjoyed this book, I blew through it in about a week!
While I understand the disappointment of some of the reviewers who felt mislead by the title, I though it was an appropriate title. I felt the title was referring more to trying to piece out the history of Nefertiti and the time that she ruled, which has been subject to ancient cover-ups. Additionally, as she mentioned in the book, unless the body thought to be Nefertiti can sit up and speak, we will never know for sure...too much time has passed.
However, I was annoyed by the lack of page numbers in the kindle version, for such a long book not to provide page numbers was truly irritating. They also failed to provide digital copies of photos referenced in the text, this also bothered me as I felt cheated by not having them. I also found it annoying that the kindle version did not have the "Xray" feature enabled, there are so many royals with the same name or about 5 different names they go by this would have been very helpful, and that's not even mentioning all the ancient/modern names of cities and towns. I really can see no reason as to why these two features could not have been implemented.
So over all, I loved the content and writing style, but I was annoyed by the lack of features available in the digital copy.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
I found this book absolutely wonderful. I am 73 years old
By handjive
I found this book absolutely wonderful. I am 73 years old, and ever since I was a little girl I have been fascinated by a group of ancient people whose pictures portrayed them in wonderful clothing, beautiful jewelry and makeup, shown facing forward, but with their feet and faces turned in profile. I saw the Discovery special in which Dr. Fletcher opened KV55 and studied the three mummies who have recently been moved to the Cairo Museum. She was, and still is, convinced that the younger mummy is that of Nefertiti. However, Zahi Hawass, the director of antiquities in Egypt, is not. He believes that it may be Kiya, who supposedly is the mother of Tut and who may have died in childbirth. However, Kiya was a very young woman, while the one in the tomb that Dr. Fletcher is interested in is seemingly mid to late 30's and maybe into her 40's. Dead giveaway is the arm that was wrentched off the mummy. Kiya was not a royal, only a secondary wife, and as such she would not have been buried in the royal position, with the arm bent at the elbow and the fist up by the opposite shoulder. In spite of all the above, I do not believe Nefertii's remains may ever be found. This was a very traumatic time for Egypt, and even though Ankhenaten has been identified, his mummy is in very bad shape and the face and name on his coffin have been scourged out. Nefer's mummy may no longer even exist, or be so well hidden that it may someday be discovered only by accident. By the way, I heard it said that the most dangerous place to be on this planet is between Dr. Hawass and a television camera! And, as far as hair and wigs go, Dr. Fletcher has carved a niche for herself with her amazing studies and discoveries about the uses of wigs and hair styles and even dying and bleaching that the Egyptians used in their everyday lives. Again, this was a wonderful read and I highly recommend it to anyone who is even remotely interested in Egyptology.
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