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Claim for Nefertiti

CAIRO: Egypt's antiquities chief told The Associated Press in an interview that if persuasion did not work, he will fight for an ancient bust of Nefertiti now in a Berlin museum that Germany says is too fragile to loan to Egypt. Zahi Hawass rattled the world's museums last week with requests to hand over masterpieces of ancient Egypt, including the Rosetta Stone — some for loans, others permanently. But the archaeologist has met resistance from museums reluctant to part with their most prized artefacts. At the top of his list of requests for loans are the famed 3,300-year-old bust of Nefertiti — wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, now at Berlin's Egyptian Museum and the Rosetta Stone at London's British Museum — a 1,680 pound slab of black basalt with an inscription that was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics.

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