washington - historians researching a grave was discovered in 1898 believes it is the mummy of queen nefertiti , a reputed beauty and wife of the renegade pharaoh akhenaten , the smithsonian channel saying on monday . virtually all marks of nefertiti and her " heretic " husband , what ruler from 1353 - 1336 ah , were erased after his unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the pantheon of the gods to worship the solar god aton - among the first known practices of monotheism . nefertiti also was stepmother of the boy - king tutankhamen , whose body was uncovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.