It is a piece of funerary artwork variously identified by scholars as Queen Nefertiti or Queen Tiye, but it might be neither. The portrait’s provenance, like most of its original material, is ...

Queen Tiye, thought to have lived 1398 - 1338 BC, was the Great Royal Wife, of the Pharaoh, Amenhotep III. She was a prominent Queen and was depeicted in numerous, reliefs, ...

Time is the likely culprit. Sculpted during Egypt’s New Kingdom, “Fragment of a Queen’s Face” (c. 1390–1336 B.C.) has endured millennia, retaining only part of its form.