{"id":212720,"date":"2025-11-06T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-nefertiti-bust-should-be-returned-to-egypt-historians-say\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:02:48","slug":"egypt-nefertiti-bust-should-be-returned-to-egypt-historians-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-nefertiti-bust-should-be-returned-to-egypt-historians-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Nefertiti Bust Should Be Returned to Egypt, Historians Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum comes with renewed calls for the restitution of the famous Nefertiti bust, which has been in Berlin since 1913.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">She is an enduring global symbol of beauty, power and mystery who has fascinated Hitler, Beyonce and Arab Spring activists alike: Queen Nefertiti, whose name translates to &#8220;the beautiful one has come,&#8221; is one of the most iconic figures of\u00a0the ancient world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten \u2014 who radically transformed\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511060167.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum comes with renewed calls for the restitution of the famous Nefertiti bust, which has been in Berlin since 1913. She is an enduring global symbol of beauty, power and mystery who has fascinated Hitler, Beyonce and Arab Spring activists alike: Queen Nefertiti, whose name translates to &#8220;the beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":212721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671845:e02e9aaa23a358b98e996169ae82f6d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,20155,4697,415,52803,19576,257,9365,254],"class_list":["post-212720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bust","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-historians","tag-nefertiti","tag-news","tag-returned","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671845:e02e9aaa23a358b98e996169ae82f6d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}