Egyptian Iced Tea Cleopatra Mask
Once a queen of immense beauty ruled alongside Akhenaten during the Amarna Period and helped her beloved Akhenaten promote his new religion.  She had a short reign of twelve years and vanished into time.  Very little is known about her, but yet she still continues to captivate the world with her beauty. Who was this lady? What exactly is known about her?  Come discover this woman that held such an important role in her reign during the Amarna Period.

Nefertiti means, “The beautiful one has arrived.”  She lived in Tell El Amarna, located nearly 300 hundred miles south of Cairo. It’s believed that Nefertiti was probably a distant relative to Akhenaten and a favorite queen to the pharaoh.  Nothing is known about the queen’s childhood, but first appears in history as Akhenaten's wife.  It's believed Akhenaten and his queen brought forth such dramatic changes, that they were unloved by their subjects.