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It was love at first sight. I saw her one day while watching a television program about King Tut, the boy King of Egypt whose tomb had been discovered by Howard Carter years before. I was looking at the famous bust of a beautiful Egyptian Queen. Her elegant face, long neck and stunning eyes exemplified human perfection of the highest order.Who was she? What was her life? How did she live? Who did she love and what were her deepest thoughts? All of these questions represented mysteries to solve. Her beauty had inspired these questions; men could not help thinking that the mystery represented eternal truths that have haunted humanity for millennia. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? Was she Helen of Troy?