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Wide of the exterior of the Altes Museum in Berlin 2. Wide of the Queen Nefertiti exhibition room, people visiting3. Close tilt up of Queen Nefertiti statue from bottom to top4. SOUNDBITE (German) Dietrich Wildung, head of the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of the exterior of the Altes Museum in Berlin \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of the Queen Nefertiti exhibition room, people visiting\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close tilt up of Queen Nefertiti statue from bottom to top\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (German) Dietrich Wildung, head of the Egyptian Museum Berlin:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The situation is the following. A private German foundation proposed that Egypt get Queen Nefertiti as a time limited loan to their museum in Cairo. The initiative didn't come from Egypt but from Germany. It is more then understandable that our Egyptian colleagues can not refuse such an offer. They reacted in a calm way and without any aggression but said that it would be nice if Nefertiti would come to Cairo.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid side shot of Queen Nefertiti statue\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up of top of Queen Nefertiti statue, pan down to the bottom\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (German) Dietrich Wildung, head of the Egyptian Museum Berlin:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our Egyptian colleagues know very well that Nefertiti will never leave Berlin for two reasons; First of all because of conservational reasons. Nefertiti has a very sensitive structure, cement on top of a limestone core. Between the two materials are lines of breakage. Secondly because of security reasons. The current political situation does not allow such a piece of art to travel. Also because Nefertiti provokes and creates emotions which cannot be controlled when presented to a larger crowd.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Zoom out from people looking at Queen Nefertiti statue at the museum\u003cbr/\u003eCairo, May 9, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e9. Exterior shot of Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities building\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid shot of Supreme Council of Antiquities sign\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt's antiquities chief: \u003cbr/\u003e\"If Berlin will not agree to give us the loan, we will fight back to bring this bust for good. It's a part of the Egyptian heritage, it left Egypt and we do have the documents that can show how the bust of Nefertiti left Egypt illegally, and we'll ask for this bust to come to Egypt for good.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Cutaway from interview \u003cbr/\u003eThe bust of Queen Nefertiti, a 3,400 year old statue depicting the wife of the Sun King Akhenaten has fuelled a war of words between German and Egyptian museums. \u003cbr/\u003eThe statue has been in German hands since it was dug out of the desert by the archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt in 1912. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was smuggled out of Egypt and became a central part of Berlin's museum collection. \u003cbr/\u003eNow the Egyptians want it back, if not for keeps, then at least on loan to mark the opening in 2012 of a new Grand Egyptian Museum, near the Pyramid at Giza. \u003cbr/\u003eBut German officials say that the bust is too fragile to travel. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Our Egyptian colleagues know very well that Nefertiti will never leave Berlin for two reasons; First of all because of conservational reasons,\" said Dietrich Wildung, head of the Egyptian Museum Berlin. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Nefertiti has a very sensitive structure.....The current political situation does not allow such a piece of art to travel. Also because Nefertiti provokes and creates emotions which cannot be controlled when presented to a larger crowd,\" he added. \u003cbr/\u003eWildung says the bust was donated to the state museum in 1920 by James Simon, who sponsored the Borchardt dig.\u003cbr/\u003eThe bust, he says, has become globally famous in a way that it would not have had it stayed in Egypt. \u003cbr/\u003eThe secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, Dr. Zahi Hawass, a vociferous champion for the permanent return of Egyptian artefacts, has sent the Germans an ultimatum.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If Berlin will not agree to give us the loan, we will fight back to bring this bust for good, Hawass said.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's a part of the Egyptian heritage, it left Egypt and we do have the documents that can show how the bust of Nefertiti left Egypt illegally, and we'll ask for this bust to come to Egypt for good.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe Germans, say the Egyptians, are afraid that they will never get Nefertiti back if they let her return home. \u003cbr/\u003eThe special beauty of the Nefertiti bust - the face painted on limestone, poised on top of a swanlike neck - was apparent to archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt as soon as he found it in the old settlement of Amarna, 150 kilometres (90 miles) south of Cairo. \u003cbr/\u003eTo take it out of the country, Borchardt had to hide the bust on an inventory and declare it as a minor find. \u003cbr/\u003eIronically, the only official who ever considered giving it back was Hermann Goering, the Nazi air force chief, who later plundered Europe's art collections.\u003cbr/\u003eHitler overruled him: Nefertiti was to be the jewel in the crown, he said, of a redesigned Berlin that was to be called Germania, the capital of the Thousand-Year Reich. \u003cbr/\u003eHawass said he wanted Nefertiti back and that most Egyptians seemed to agree. \u003cbr/\u003eThey were as upset as he was in 2003, when the Egyptian Museum in Berlin let two artists place 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