by John Coleman
Believe it or what! Queen Nefertiti, 1350 B.C., can assist man to find out about everything that happened with women in the past. In order to find out about everything that happened with women in the past we need to look into history. Whatever happened yesterday may lead us to things that happened in the past. Who do you think is a real historian? Is it someone who has studied manuscripts and books? Perhaps some historian has chosen to divulge to others only certain parts of actual events of women in history. But a true historian is someone who may tell us things about what happened the other day in the life of women without changing or exaggerating records to prove it. When it comes to understanding women, what do we want?
Take for example, Queen Nefertiti. A historian herself, this queen, never did write, about things that never happened in her presence or in her past. No one will find her writings and begin to spread to others what the dead woman had said as truth, and then later discover that what she said was not truth. Nefertiti understood that there has never been a writer who was totally objective and completely free from bias. Nefertiti at times told someone to write exactly what she said. And write they would. But it would be according to the full purpose of the instructor.
Today, even historians or reporters can distort the facts to some degree about women. But believe it or not, Nefertiti had nothing to gain by destroying records she had access to. She spoke about women’s error and perfection. She was in charge and fair. Part of Nefertiti’s story telling was to make sure that physical evidence would not be interpreted or read as prehistoric. This is where art comes in. She made sure that drawings of women would not be left to guess work. No one could later say that neither she nor the women of her time belonged to a period before recorded history. In art women of
