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Nefertiti Resurrected - A Man?

Sunday August 31, 2003
Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass says that the body said to be Nefertiti about which the Discovery Channel did a television program this month, is more likely to have been a man, in this Reuters article:
Doubt cast on Nefertiti discovery
Discussion: Discovery's Nefertiti
The hips are too narrow, the mummy is too young and the body piercings aren't quite right, Hawass explains.

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