Queen Nefertiti bust only 100 years old?

From Egyptology News:

The bust of Queen Nefertiti housed in a Berlin museum and believed to be 3,400 years old in fact is a copy dating from 1912 that was made to test pigments used by the ancient Egyptians, according to Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin.

Stierlin, author of a dozen works on Egypt, the Middle East and ancient Islam, says in a just-released book that the bust currently in Berlin’s Altes Museum was made on the orders of Germany archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt on site at the digs by an artist named Gerardt Marks.

Hawass reaction to this: here.

Egypt’s antiquities chief has declared that he will formally demand the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti from a Berlin museum after confirming it was sneaked out of Cairo through fraudulent documents: here.

Another article about the Nefertiti bust dispute: here.

Germany to celebrate centennial of Nefertiti bust discovery: here.

Women in ancient Egypt: here.