00:00The Disappearance of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti
00:02Nefertiti was perhaps one of the most powerful women ever to have ruled.
00:06Her husband went to great lengths to display her as an equal. In several reliefs,
00:10she is shown wearing the crown of a pharaoh or smiting her enemies in battle.
00:14But despite this great power, Nefertiti disappears from all depictions after 12 years.
00:19She was among the few women who ruled over Egypt but nobody has ever found her resting place.
00:24Archaeologists tried their best to search her tomb.
00:26In 2018, they were almost convinced that they had found her tomb but they were wrong.
00:32Surprisingly there is no mention of her death in Egyptian history.
00:37Some believe she changed her name after becoming pharaoh while others say she was never a pharaoh at
00:41all. After presiding over ancient Egypt with unprecedented power, Queen Nefertiti mysteriously
00:47vanished from the historical record in 1336 BC. But some believe she secretly took her husband's
00:54place as pharaoh after he died.
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