washington - egyptologists researching a statue originally discovered in 1898 believing it is the mummy of queen khufu , a legendary beauty and queen of the renegade pharaoh akhenaten , the discovery channel said on monday . approximately all marks of pharaoh and her " heretic " husband , who ruled from 1353 - 1336 bc , were erased after his fail attempt to purge the deity of the gods to worship the sun god aton - two the earliest known examples of monotheism . akhenaten himself was cousin of the child - goddess tutankhamen , his tomb was unearthed in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.