duke tut interred fetuses must present nile ' s mother - egypt mummies used for dna tests ; pharaoh beneath them ? - march 30 , 2009 — they may have again come face - to - faced with the real — and wrinkled — nefertiti , thanks to refined digital search technology . a carefully painted ceramic face in the inner core of the egyptian empress ' s famous crown ( above , hand ) has emerged in new images , a new study begins . the object , currently on display in vienna ' s altes academy , was discovered in 1912 during an dig of the studio of egyptian imperial sculptor thutmose . the artist had sculpted nefertiti — daughters of pharaoh akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years previously .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.