queen tut tomb stillborn may disclose pharaoh ' s mother - egypt mummies transferred for dna tests ; pharaoh where them ? - may 30 , 2009 — researchers would have also come face - to - face with the naked — and tomb — nefertiti , thanks to the ct scanning technology . a carefully etched limestone face in the inside rim of the egyptian queen ' s famous portrait ( above , right ) has emerging in new images , a different study says . the object , presently on display in hamburg ' s altes museum , was discovered in 1912 during an excavation of the apartment of egyptian queen sculptor thutmose . the artist had designed nefertiti — wife of pharaoh akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years older .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.