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Bust of Nefertiti, Ägyptisches Museum

Berlin's Ägyptisches Museum ( German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. It is the language with the most native speakers in the European Union. It is spoken... German: "Egyptian Museum") is home to one of the world's most important collections of Map of Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was the civilization of the Nile Valley between about 3000 BC and the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. As a civilization based on irrigation it is the quintessential example of an hydraulic empire. History History of Ancient Egypt List... Ancient Egyptian artefacts.

The museum originated with the royal art collection of the The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia ( German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad... Prussian This article treats the generic title monarch. For the origins of the word king and its English use, see Germanic king. For other meanings of the word, see Monarch (disambiguation) A monarch is a type of ruler or head of state. The word derives from Greek monos archein, meaning one... kings: it was Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von Humboldt, ( September 14, 1769, Berlin– May 6, 1859, Berlin), was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. Alexander von Humboldt Introduction Brief description of Humboldts travels Between 1799 and 1804, von... Alexander von Humboldt who recommended that an Egyptian section be created, and the first objects were brought to Berlin in 1828 under Frederick William III Frederick William III, known in German as Friedrich Wilhelm III, reigned as king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. The son of King Frederick William II of Prussia, Frederick William was born in Potsdam on August 3, 1770, and became Crown Prince in 1786, when his father... Friedrich Wilhelm III.

The most famous piece on display is the exceptionally well preserved and vividly coloured bust of Nefertiti was the wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten), and mother-in-law of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Her name roughly translates to the beautiful one is come. She also shares her name with a type of elongated gold bead that she was often portrayed as wearing, known... Queen Nefertiti.

See also

• Carl Richard Lepsius (December 23, 1810 - July 10, 1884) was a German professor of Egyptology and linguist. He was born in Naumburg on the river Saale, and studied Comparative Linguistics successively at Leipzig, Göttingen and Berlin. After receiving his doctorate following his dissertation De tabulis Eugubinis in 1833, he... Karl Richard Lepsius

External link

• Official site (http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/amp/e/s.html) (English language)