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Nefertiti gets new home in Berlin
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As the wounds of post-war division are finally healing over, the German capital's Egyptian art collection is being brought back together at long last.

Egypt and Germany have been fighting for possession of her for 90 years but, because Adolf Hitler loved her, she remained in Berlin's Egyptian art museum.

In a dispute as old as the land of the Nile itself, Egypt has repeatedly reasserted its claim to the wayward beauty it says is being held illegally in Berlin...

[More]  Taipei Times, Taiwan, Jan 05, 2005, via Archaeologica.


#82 posted by Mark Morgan on 05 January 2005, 10:48:58 PM  Permalink   comment [] trackback []