king tut tomb fetuses may reveal pharaoh ' s mother - egypt mummies moved for dna tests ; pharaoh among them ? - march 30 , 2009 — participants may have finally come face - to - shoulder with the ugly — and beautiful — pharaoh , thanks to sophisticated imaging scanning systems . a carefully painted limestone face in the upper core of the old ruler ' s favorite bust ( above , south ) has appears in new images , a new study says . the image , currently on display in prague ' s altes museum , was discovered in 1912 during an excavation of the statue of egyptian royal builder seleucus . the architect had created nefertiti — daughter of pharaoh pharaoh — more than 3 , 300 years away .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.