Scientists Scanned the Nefertiti Bust — The Hidden Face Inside Left Them Speechless

Scientists Scanned the Nefertiti Bust — The Hidden Face Inside Left Them Speechless For over three thousand years, one of the most famous faces in human history kept a secret. It sat in plain sight — displayed in a glass case, photographed millions of times, studied by scholars, admired by visitors from every corner of the world. It became the face of ancient Egypt, the symbol of beauty across civilisations, the most recognised artwork ever recovered from the ancient world. And the entire time, it was hiding something. In 2007, a team of medical researchers did something that had never been done before. They placed the Nefertiti bust inside a hospital CT scanner — the same cutting-edge technology used to detect cancers and map the human brain — and they looked inside.