king tut tomb newborns must reveal pharaoh ' s mother - egypt archaeologists moving for dna tests ; pharaoh among them ? - march 30 , 2009 — archaeologists may have now come face - to - shoulder with the old — and wrinkled — nefertiti , thanks to sophisticated ct scan devices . a carefully sculpted limestone face in the inner shell of the egyptian queen ' s famous bust ( above , centre ) has emerged in new prints , a new scholarship says . the object , currently on displaying in dresden ' s altes museo , was unearthed in 1912 during an excavation of the gallery of egyptian royal sculptor akhenaten . the prince had sculpted nefertiti — child of pharaoh nefertiti — more than 3 , 300 years ago .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.