Hi Jon, see my earlier post on Egypt - various points - about my recent Louvre conference visit & zodiac visit.

RE Nefertiti.

I think I have seen this.

As I remember it, What he did was photograph it in a way that revealed that the sculpture had included much fine detail such as fine wrinkles that had never been noticed before.

Far from showing a less flattering portrait, it showed that what we see is indeed a real portrait of Nefertiti IMO, and it showed the full levels of skill of the sculptor.

That's how I remember it.

I get annoyed at these reconstructions in general - they generally ignore the fact that the sculptors of Egypt were probably able to produce a far more realistic portrait than the re-constructors can.

The Egyptians were very good at producing true to life portraits, as the Lovre Scribe and other great works like Hemiunu show, which are far from 'ideals'.

Dave L



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