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Verginiya isn’t the most beautiful of the beauties as it was said, because the truth is that only Nefertiti deserves this title. who, if someone saw her fall in love with her as much as Hitler loved her, he was ready to declare war on Egypt, just so that Nefertiti's head would not return to her homeland. Here we are talking about a bust of Nefertiti that highlights and embodies her beauty, so you can't imagine her beauty while she is alive. Most likely, the Nefertiti statue is now 3361 years old and was discovered in 1912 by Ludwig Borchardt, who put things on her to hide her features so that he could take her on the pretext that this is a representation of no value. In that way, he stole it and they did not announce their possession until 1923 in the Berlin Museum.

Negotiations began between Egypt and Germany to retrieve the bust of Nefertiti, which had come out illegally[168]. Despite the existence of the document and the deception that occurred by Borchardt, there were always arguments of no value, such as that the statue could not be transferred or that Egypt is not qualified to preserve antiquities after the 2011 revolution and the lawlessness, there may be a fear that the statue's recovery would cause political problems between the two towns[169]. Egypt did not stop receiving tourists after the end of the bull, and there are always conservators in Egyptian museums who work periodically to take care of antiquities. This is what any foreign visitor can see in the Egyptian Museum, where there are conservators in the exhibition halls and do periodic maintenance as the presence of visitors does not hinder him from his work, always finds a place in museums for conservation. Now there is the Grand Egyptian Museum, considered the largest museum of Egyptian antiquities in the world. There is countless evidence that proves that Egypt can preserve its archaeological properties; there is much more evidence to show that foreign countries cannot preserve artefacts in museums.

Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from UNESCO says that the law must protect the freedoms and rights of others and public health[170]. The West has enjoyed and benefited from the bust of Nefertiti a lot, such as making and selling 3d models, receiving visitors in the museum to see them, making copies of them and placing them in other museums, although they are not original but visitors go to them[171]. It is not fair for a false identity of a state and its people to be formed based on Egyptian antiquities and culture, while those with an Egyptian identity are deprived of their culture. And that is the right of the Egyptians to enjoy the beauty and value of their queen Nefertiti and to return to her original homeland, Egypt benefits from it in economic and cultural terms. Women have used Nefertiti as a role model for feminist movements because of her great power, and beauty which are unmatched, during the Berlin election campaign of 1999[172]. In Cairo, women who have been sexually harassed and assaulted used a picture of Nefertiti wearing a gas mask to react to what was happening inside police stations. Nefertiti has become an icon that expresses women worldwide, indicating their strength and their rights to freedom.

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