washington - egyptologists investigates a mummy first detected in 1898 believe it is the remains of queen pharaohs , a legendary beauty and wife of the renegade pharaoh akhenaten , the discovery was says on monday . virtually all prints of nefertiti and her " heretic " husband , who reign from 1353 - 1336 bc , were erased after his unsuccessful plot to destroy the pantheon of the god to worship the fire king aton - among the pioneer known practiced of monotheism . nefertiti also was grandmother of the boy - king tutankhamen , whose tomb was discovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.