By David Leafe
An erotic striptease to arouse the sun god was part of Queen Nefertiti's daily routine.
With the early morning sun glinting off her golden bracelets and great clouds of aromatic incense billowing all around her, Queen Nefertiti of Egypt began her elaborate dance of seduction.
Music was provided by a choir of blind men - chosen because they could see nothing of this most erotic of royal rituals - who clapped and sang as she moved towards the altar.
Nefertiti's religious striptease was an important part of her daily routine There she slipped off her diaphanous robe and offered up her body, shaved, oiled and perfumed, to the warm caresses of the object of her devotion - the sun god known as Aten.
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Nefertiti's religious striptease was an important part of her daily routine. If the sun god was sexually aroused, it was believed that he would look favourably upon the people of Egypt.
It was a role for which Nefertiti, one of the most celebrated beauties of all time, was well-equipped. Even today she has the power to draw every eye.
A famous bust, found in Egypt in 1912 and now in a Berlin museum, shows her wearing a distinctive blue crown, with her long and slender neck sweeping up elegantly to her perfectly proportioned face as a mysterious smile plays about her reddened lips.
Even Adolf Hitler fell under Nefertiti's spell. When the Egyptian authorities demanded the return of the Berlin bust in the 1930s, Hitler intervened to insist it should stay in Germany.
Even Adolf Hitler fell under Nefertiti's spell A great temptress she may have been, but there was far more to Nefertiti than her beauty, as is revealed in a fascinating new book by Egyptologist Joann Fletcher.
Controversially, Fletcher also suggests that a long-hidden mummy in Egypt's Valley of the Kings may well be Nefertiti herself. And if true, it raises some intriguing questions, because the body had been horribly maimed and disfigured.
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