washington - genealogists researching a mummy later discoveries in 1898 believe it is the mummy of queen nefertiti , a supposed beauty and widow of the renegade monarch amarna , the discovery channel said on friday . previously all traces of nefertiti and her " heresy " husband , had ruling from 1353 - 1336 ) , were lost after his unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the religion of the gods to worship the sun god aton - following the earliest known practice of monotheism . nefertiti also was stepmother of the slave - king tutankhamen , whose tomb was discovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.