If Dr. Hawass takes Germany to the “International Court” at the Hague, he may win the case BUT the Nefertit bust will not be returned to Egypt. Germany will never let it go out of sight because if it does, Egypt will have it examined by a team of International scientists and they will find out that the bust is not authentic.

The reason why Egypt will have the bust examined by scientists is in order to dispel rumors that it is not authentic. But if it is examined by a scientist like Prof. Leon Silver of the California Institute of Technology, the bust will not have one single chance in turning out to be authentic, because Prof. Silver will notice that it has not suffered any weathering, he will notice that the vivid colors on Nefertiti’s face must have been applied to it a few weeks or a few months before the bust had been placed on the ground by an accomplice of Borchardt, especially after lying face against the ground for 3,350 years. Therefore, it would be too embarrassing for Germany in having had it exhibited for some 90 years knowing that it was a fake, and collecting millions upon millions of dollars from the gullible public and tourists.

Ever since the bust had been exhibited in Germany, a great majority of German egyptologists, as well as egyptologists around the world, had said that it is a beautiful “Art Nouveau” sculpture. In fact it is. It is said that an artist is always influenced by the style of his time. Even Borchardt had been influenced by that style that is Art Nouveau since he accepted the bust the way it looked in spite of instructing the young German sculptor who had accompanied him at Amara of how he wanted it to look like.

To begin with, the bust cannot be considered a model for student sculptors to copy the likeness of Nefertiti unless Nefertiti was one-eyed.

Henri Stierlin, the Art Historian who wrote the book titled “Le bust de Nefertiti, une imposture de l’Egyptologie” said that the bust would fit better in the vitrine of a “Beauty Salon” than in the showcase of a Museum.

Borchardt had admitted to having faked a cuneiform clay tablet, and egyptologist Erman confirmed it. If Borchardt made one forgery, why couldn’t he have had the bust of Nefertiti made? he had discovered ancient pigments in a tomb that he said he wanted to test, and he had a gifted young sculptor in his team at Tel-el-Amarna.

Temptation is too great. Borchardt wanted to test the pigments; the bust was carved from limestone and therefore DID NOT have to be covered with plaster in order to be painted, since the ancient Egyptians painted sculptures carved from stones.

If the bust was an original, what could have prevented the master sculptor from making corrections in it in order to make it a masterpiece as some Egyptologists claim that it is, in spite of it being a one-eyed FALSE representation of the Queen and that it is a model for students to copy Nefertiti’s likeness?

Think about it. What would Akhenaten have said had he seen his wife represented in such a way? it would have been a scary sight. Would he have told Thutmose: thank you for representing my beautiful Queen with one eye? or would he have exiled him in the arid desert of the Sinai, or had him thrown in the Nile for the crocodiles to devour him?

The Ct scan of the bust had been made under the watchful eyes, DIRECTION AND SUPERVISION of Herr Dietrich Wildung, and Wildung is known to be a “dishonest” man and a “hypocrite”. He had written an article titled: “Falsche Pharaonen”, and instead of endorsing the article with his own name, he had a respectable geologist put his name.

For this reason, the Honorable George Xanthos, Judge of the Superior court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles, has branded him an “Intellectually dishonest person”.

Before being offered the position of directorship of the Berlin Egyptian Museum (no body knows how, but I think I do), on September 9, 1983, Wildung had sent a letter to Henri Stierlin telling him in his “Historical/Stylistic Analysis” of the bust: “it is a cold perfection, a lifeless work, a fabricated sculpture with no style of the period perceptible in it”. How could it have been then an authentic piece?

But when Wildung had been offered the position of Director of the Museum, he had no choice but protect the bust because it was a money-making tool. He then had sent a delegation headed by egyptologist Rolf Krauss in order to convince Stierlin to give up his investigations about the bust.

If the bust was authentic, Wildung would have said that Stierlin is jealous of him, or that he was nuts to claim that such a masterpiece could be a forgery, and being that he is the Director of the Museum, and the supposed to be “International Leading Egyptologist”. AND the “Numero Uno” expert in Amarna Art (as he thinks he is), people would have believed him and would have ignored Stierlin.

But poor Wildung didn’t know that Stierlin had kept his correspondence.

Poor Wildung is in a jam now. How will he ever be able to get out of it. He’s out of the Museum, but can he run away from a curse that will be following him for the rest of his life?

Edgard Mansoor