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    Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery

    By Dr. Joann Fletcher

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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.

    In The Search for Nefertiti Dr. Fletcher, an esteemed Egyptologist, traces not only her thirteen-year search for this woman, whose beauty was as great as her power, but also brings to the forefront the way Egypt's royal dead have been treated over time by people as varied as Agatha Christie and Adolf Hitler. She also explores how modern technology and forensics are quickly changing the field of archaeology and, in turn, what we know about history.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 30, 2011
    ISBN9780062106360
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    Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery
    Author

    Dr. Joann Fletcher

    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.

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    • 2/5
      I am not having good luck with books today. The Search for Nefertiti opens with an autobiography of Joann Fletcher, which I found rather over-written and just ridiculous. What Egyptologist could just "take or leave" the pyramids (or at least, admit that they don't care for them)? Who comments, with surprise, that Egypt is "hot!"? I pulled away from the book and trawled through some reviews, and have to conclude this isn't worth the time: I've read a lot of theories about Nefertiti before, published since Fletcher's work, and I can't say her theories sound any more convincing, nor as borne out by the evidence. I think it might be interesting as an introduction to the study of Nefertiti, but I'm rather beyond that now -- and I'm not interested in Joann Fletcher's life.
    • 5/5
      This is a thoroughly enjoyable book.Dr Fletcher's theories have been a source of hot debate in the Egyptology world, and we may never know whether or not she is correct with 100% certainty. However, this volume neither requires not solicits acceptance of her ideas. Instead, she presents a charming and deeply personal narrative which is partially autobiographical, partly a tale of modern archeological adventure, and partly a wonderfully accesible history of the Amarna period of ancient Egyptian history.She writes about one of the most fascinating of Egyptian dynasties as if she had been invited to tea at the palace, and it is absolutely impossible not to be entranced by the intimate and minute details of royal life that she presents. Being familiar with the subject matter before reading this book, I was immensely impressed by the way she mentions small facts that support her theory throughout the work but without emphasising them unduly or declaring them to be evidence in her favour.Indeed, the author convinces us only of her deep fascination with and passion for her subject matter, and her own conviction that the conclusions she has drawn from her long and fascinating personal journey are justified. Even her most vocal opponent, Dr Zahi Hawass, is treated with grace and something approaching affection in her narrative.In a world where popular scientific writing is increasingly self-conscious and vacuous, Dr Fletcher is a breath of fresh air, writing with a contemporary charm and a touch for detail reminiscent of the great William Prescott. If you enjoy ancient history, and particularly Egyptian history, this book will make a fantastic addition to your library.
    • 4/5
      The reader should be aware that Zahi Hawass had the DNA of the mummy in question tested, and announced that it is a male. Which would make Fletcher's theory wrong. Nevetheless, it is interesting as a read about archeological technique and research. One gathers that the politics of archeology are quite fraught with tension. Further developments regarding this mummy may prove quite interesting.