 Engineer Ludwig Borchardt, who worked in Egypt since 1895 and wed the wealthy archaeologist Mimi he met there, discovered many treasures, including the legendary, 3500 years old bust of revolutionary monotheist Pharaoh Echnathon s mysterious, unprecedentedly powerful queen Nofretete ( the beautiful one has come ) on December 6, 1912 in their new capital Amarna s ruins. It s now the main attraction in Berlin s Egyptian Museum, the world s first  cover girl  since its 1924 first exposition. A recent German archaeological find in Amarna seems to be the matching body. Modern archaeologists Dr. Cornelius von Pilgrim, professor Barry Kemp and Dr. Olaf Matthes reconstruct Borchard s search and intimate knowledge of the fake trade, and try to verify the rumor the bust would be a deliberate fake by Borchardt who also bought finds and would have smuggled some 15,000 pieces to Berlin, or a copy would have replaced it during the 1944 Nazi evacuation; a tomographic Rontgen scan finds an invisible calcareous portrait inside the famous plaster face. Egypian archeology chief Zahi Awass demands the bust s return to Cairo.