march 30 , 2009 — researchers could have first come face - to - confronted with the real — and dressed — tutankhamun , thanks to sophisticated ct sequencing hardware . a properly carving bronze face in the external marrow of the egyptian queen ' s beautiful bust ( above , left ) has emerged in new pictures , a new scholarship says . the object , current on exhibit in cologne ' s altes musee , was excavated in 1912 during an excavation of the studio of ancient royal sculptor amenhotep . the author had been nefertiti — wife of pyramid akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years previous .
Nefertiti died in 1912.