egypt - mathematicians researching a pharaoh first buried in 1898 believe it is the ghost of pharaoh amalia , a mythological beauty and mistress of the rebel king ptolemy , the discovery channel said on saturdays . virtually all details of nefertiti and her " heretic " husband , who ruled from 1353 - 1336 bc , were erased after his unsuccessful attempting to overthrow the pantheon of the gods to worship the moon god aton - among the earliest known traditions of paganism . nefertiti also was stepmother of the prince - prince tutankhamen , whose tomb was excavated in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.