# High-resolution imaging campaigns publish new views of the Nefertiti bust

Date: 2015

## The fact

In the 2010s research teams published high-resolution and CT-based studies of the Berlin bust, including disputed claims of an inner face. The publications are dated scientific instruments. They do not prove a second portrait as a royal secret without replication, and they do not move title.

## Context

Non-invasive imaging is a knowledge gain and a hype risk. Nature’s 2013 news item reported the inner-face claim with caveats. SMB still exhibits one object.

[Nefertiti](/people/nefertiti) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

SMB holds the object. Nature independently reported the imaging controversy. Different publishers.

Official or archival record: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin — Neues Museum (https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/neues-museum/home.html; SMB / Neues Museum).

## Significance

Knowledge-access path with contested interpretation. High confidence on scans existing, low on inner-face royal meaning.

A scan is not a biography. Do not upgrade a CT slice into a co-regency.

## What is established and what is not

Established: researchers published scans of the bust. Not established: a hidden second Nefertiti as historical fact.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Nefertiti: https://factrail.ai/people/nefertiti

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.12797
- https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/neues-museum/home.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/eg-digital-giza-and-amarna-imaging