utah - egyptologists researching a remains later detected in 1898 believing it is the mummy of queen mummified , a legendary beauty and wife of the renegade pharaoh ramesses , the history channel said on mondays . literally all traces of nefertiti and her " heretic " husbands , she ruled from 1353 - 1336 bc , were erase after his unsuccessful bid to purge the pantheon of the pharaoh to worship the sun warrior aton - in the earliest possible practice of monotheism . nefertiti first was stepmother of the boy - king tutankhamen , whose tomb was discovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.