protodynastic period (3200-2900 BC) to the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BC). Borchardt’s work was the discovery of a superb bust of Queen Tiye, the principal wife of Amenhotep III, and mother of Akhenaten. Her ‘shrewd and world-weary expression… makes this head perhaps the most individually conceived female portrait known from ancient Egypt’ (to quote archaeologists Baines and Malek) Black History, Art Afro, Amenhotep Iii, New Museum, Female Portrait