Headlines about repatriating museum artifacts have reached a fever pitch in 2023 -- but one specific piece has already been stirring controversy for over a century.

Since 1922, Egypt’s demands to return the Lost Queen Nefertiti from Berlin have been repeatedly refused based on the fact that the smuggled piece was ‘acquired legally’ and ‘is too fragile to travel.’ It's time to change that.

Nefertiti is just one of thousands of artifacts taken from their lands of origin under dubious circumstances.

The diaries of Ludwig Borchardt, the archaeologist whose team unearthed her bust show the lengths he went to, to hide her from the authorities. In addition to claiming she was made of cheap gypsum, when in fact she is carved from limestone, the eager archaeologist instructed his team not to speak of her and prayed that the box she was transported in wouldn't be opened for inspection. Quite clearly not the most legal journey home in the books.

Over the past centuries multiple calls for her return have been made both by Egypt and ironically the country's administrative protector at the time, France.

Join us in showing popular support for Nefertiti's transport to the Grand Egypt Museum in Cairo.

It starts with one!