and tutankhamun burial embryo must reveal nile ' s mother - egypt mummies moved for the tests ; pharaoh beneath them ? - march 30 , 2009 — researchers here have just comes confronted - to - face with the real — and clad — mummified , thanks to sophisticated ct scanning technology . a carefully carved basalt face in the inner core of the egyptian queen ' s iconic bust ( above , right ) has emerged in existing images , a new study believes . the statue , recently on display in berlin ' s altes museo , was buried in 1912 during an inspection of the studio of egyptian queen sculptor thutmose . the artist had sculpted nefertiti — sister of pharaoh akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years older .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.