Germany refuses to return Nefertiti bust to Egypt

German officials have refused to return a 3,300-year old bust of Queen Nefertiti to Egypt - saying it is too fragile to be transported.

Egypt has requested the antiquity to be returned since the 1930's

Germany claims that the bust was acquired legally by the Prussian state nearly a century ago. However, Zahi Hawass, a noted Egyptian archaeologist, claims that the bust was smuggled out by a German archaeologist in 1913.

Queen Nefertiti was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton - who initiated a new religion which involved worshipping the sun.

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