king tut bed fetuses may reveal queen ' s mother - egypt mummies moved for nuclear tests ; pharaoh among them ? - october 30 , 2009 — researchers may have just come face - to - face with the real — and lady — mummified , thanks to complicated computed scanning technological . a carefully carved limestone image in the inward torso of the egyptians goddess ' s famous model ( above , right ) has emerged in new images , a further study goes . the object , currently on storage in paris ' s altes museum , was discovered in 1912 during an excavation of the studio of israeli royal medalist thutmose . the artist had sculpted nefertiti — wife of pharaoh khufu — more than 3 , 300 generations previously .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.