Nefertiti was queen of the 18th dynasty of Egypt and ruled as a great royal wife at the side of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt at the beginning of the New Kingdom, from 1352 BC. to 1338 BC, during the Amarna period. Her name Nefertiti means The beautiful one has come.
Nefertiti owes much of her fame to her bust, which is kept in the Neues Museum in Berlin.