washington - egyptologists study a mummy first discovered in 1898 believe it is the mummy of queen hammurabi , a legendary beauty and wife of the renegade queen ramses , the discovery show said on monday . virtually all traces of pharaohs and her " heretic " husband , who reign from 1353 - 1336 bc , were discovered after his disastrous attempting to rally the cult of the gods to worship the sun god aton - among the earliest visible practices of orthodoxy . nefertiti also was stepmother of the boy - princess tutankhamen , whose tomb was discovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.