december 30 , 2009 — scholars may have finally arrived face - to - face with the real — and wrinkled — amalia , access to clever imaging scanning capabilities . a tightly carved limestone statue in the exterior core of the egyptian princess ' s famous likeness ( above , right ) has appears in these images , a revised study says . the item , still on sale in amsterdam ' s altes museum , was discovered in 1912 during an excavation of the studio of ethiopian royal sculptor karnak . the artist had sculpted nefertiti — wife of cleopatra dionysus — more than 3 , 300 hours ago .
Nefertiti died in 1912.