Nefertiti; A Novel

The most amazing book I've ever read. Hands freaking down.

Happiness, hatred, anger, sadness. I felt all of these emotions while reading this first novel of Michelle Moran's. I fell in love with so many characters, they all came alive.

The story is about Nefertiti, one of the most remembered Pharaoh's of ancient Egypt. Most remembered by the bust she had made of herself. The story is told through the eyes of her sister Mutnodjmet or more fondly known as Mutny. Simply put, the story revolves around the reign of Nefertiti and the influence she had over the people of Egypt at the time. How she and her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten had created a new religion and had built a new city from scratch where no other Pharaoh had built before. The city of Amarna.

Here's a link to a review, because I don't really want to spoil it. But my gosh. I can't tell you how good it was to read!

http://novelreviews.blogspot.com/2007/06/michelle-morans-nefertiti-novel.html

These are some pictures of the famous bust that Nefertiti had made of her.

You can see the an eye is missing a pupil and iris; it was never finished.

Below is a picture of Nefertiti's mummy. Her face and chest were smashed when thieves broke into her tomb for the gold, so the story goes.



After discovering the mummy, the experts scanned it and managed to reconstruct the face of the mummy based on its skull. So, this is what Nefertiti might have really looked like:



And these are statues of her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten. He had statues made to specifically depict himself. Others before him had the same kind of pictures and statues just to let everyone know they were Pharaohs, but not Akhenaten, he had his statues made to look like him, with sharper and stronger features. He also made the statues look feminine and masculine, with the face being long, and the hips wide and curvy.

So there you have it. The story of Nefertiti, the self proclaimed reincarnation of the goddess Isis.
Beautifully immortalized for eternity; as she had wished.