Everything about this program was shamelessly hyped and staged, I was not at all surprised to find out that the face re-created by the forensic artist strongly resembled the actress playing Nefertiti in the dramatized sections (the clear implication was that the artist might have been shown photos of the actress). Even the Discovery Channel is not above producing a bit of "tabloid TV" when there's a chance of a profit.Dr Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egyptian Antiquities strongly advised Dr. Joann Fletcher against risking her reputation by participating in this program. She went ahead anyway. Later DNA testing on the mummy that Fletcher declared to be Nefertiti proved that it was the body of a MALE ! As a result of this and other incidents, she is no longer allowed to work in the Valley of The Kings, and may never recover her professional reputation.

I watched this video in Western Civ. class today, and I thought it was very interesting. I learned a lot about Nefertiti, and her husband Akhenaton, and I believe that Joann Fletcher is right, and the mummy is in fact Nefertiti. The only thing that kind of bothered me was that the video repeatedly showed the same shots of the actress portraying Nefertiti, over and over and over again, especially this one shot of her opening her eyes-yes, just opening her eyes, and they showed it constantly. Other than that, I think it was a great video. Joann was a bit annoying with her "Wows!' and "its amazings" but I think she had reason to be excited, since there is so much evidence that the mummy is Nefertiti.

We as people watch films for a number of reasons. We want to be entertained, we want to be informed, or we want to have something that stands as a reminder of something that we had like a connection we had with someone. This is not a perfect documentary that is for sure, it contains reacts to give you a picture of what it was like to be in the time period of Nefertiti that are at times a little over the top. However, for me it is a film that I fell strong about because of personal reasons. I always think about Egypt and that fact that it is in Afican but yet I have yet to see in a film a person of color play an Egyptian Queen or King. Also this documentary helped me learn who Nefertiti was. I had always seen sculptures of her around and pictures but I didn't know her name.

I have seen this documentary three times and feel obliged to make a comment. It is not an in depth study of the subject. I think it fails to actually identify the place of Nefertiti in history and the absolute power this woman wielded in a time that women were subservient to men. What it does do is pique our interest, as it did mine, to do more research on a most interesting subject. I can remember as a youth, hearing the name, Nefertiti, not sure if in the context of school/history class, but the historical presentation of this documentary filled in the blank spots of a remarkable time in ancient history that has all but been lost. It is not a documentary on the order of Ken Burns, the number ONE producer/director of documentaries(THE WEST, MARK TWAIN) in the world but does offer a base line with which to begin additional research.