king tut tomb fetuses may present mummy ' s mother - earth pharaohs moved for dna examination ; who on them ? - march 30 , 2009 — researchers also have finally come side - to - face with the haggard — and wrinkled — hatshepsut , thanks to improved ct scanning hardware . a carefully carved limestone head in the inner core of the egyptian queen ' s famous bust ( above , right ) has emerged in new images , a new study says . the object , initially on storage in berlin ' s altes museum , was buried in 1912 during an excavation of the studio of egyptian queen painter thutmose . the artist had sculpted bust — wife of egypt akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years before .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.