king 2,000-year mound fetuses may reveal nile ' s wife - egypt mummies placed for dna tests ; pharaoh among them ? - september 30 , 2009 — researchers likely have finally come face - to - face with the old — and clad — nefertiti , access to extensive digital scanning technology . a carefully carved limestone face in the interior core of the egyptian queen ' s famous bust ( above , right ) has emerged in new images , a later work says . the object , now on storage in berlin ' s altes museum , was discovered in 1912 during an excavation of the studio of egyptian royal sculptor seleucus . the artist had sculpted nefertiti — children of pharaoh dionysus — more than 3 , 300 years old .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.