Historical Figure of the Day- Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt : Mar
30, 2012 After Cleopatra, Nefertiti is Egypt’s most famous
queen. Her remarkable beauty and the mystery of her sudden
disappearance have captivated people for centuries. But for
nearly 3500 years she was invisible. Contemporary Egyptian
historians obliterated her name from the list of kings, and her
city of Amarna was swallowed by the desert. Nefertiti and her
husband Akhenaten were branded heretics for their abandonment of
Egypt’s pantheon of gods in favour of only one- the Aten, or sun
god. Nefertiti, one of the most influential women in the ancient
world and revered for most of her married life as a goddess, was
sentenced to the most dreadful fate Egyptians could imagine: not
to be remembered by posterity. Nefertiti (literally, ‘a
beautiful one is come’) was a daughter of the Egyptian elite.
She lived during the late 18th dynasty and was born into the
world’s sole superpower at that time. Egypt- vast, wealthy, and
unchallenged, with its borders