utah - paleontologists researching a skeleton first discovered in 1898 believing it is the mummy of queen hammurabi , a legendary beauty and wife of the renegade mummy akhenaten , the adventure channel said on monday . largely all traces of nefertiti and her " heretic " husband , who ruled from 1353 - 1336 bc , were buried after his unsuccessful attempt to purge the pantheon of the gods to worship the sea man aton - another the earliest known practices of zoroastrianism . bust also was mistress of the boy - kingdom tutankhamen , and coffin was discovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.